by Lea Sorli
This study illustrates how people living with dementia hold and can share the wisdom of elders. My focus is two fold: the value of art therapy with people living with dementia, and secondly the value of working with this population for training art therapists.
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This paper presents a qualitative study of the use of art therapy in the maintenance of ‘self’ with six individuals in the advanced stages of dementia. It seeks to find ways for health care professionals, therapists, and caregivers to maintain quality of life and help those in the severe stages of dementia preserve a sense of self.
Read Moreby Jennifer Hakola
This study examines the value of art therapy for the elderly in a long term care facility. Psychoanalysis, object relations theory, and phenomenology are highlighted in relation to the art therapy approach used in this study.
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