Creative arts for dementia

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NIHR ARCs national #ARCseminar on creative arts for dementia .

NIHR ARCs national webinars: Creative arts

In this cross-ARC series of three webinars, we look at varied research exploring the power of creative arts to improve wellbeing and involvement in research of different communities.

In this year's national #ARCseminar series, we explore the healing power of creative arts.Here, in the third webinar of the series, we will be hearing from researchers on: Creative arts for dementia care.Three short 10-minute talks explore research on the impact of music therapy, singing and dancing interventions for people with dementia, and using creative arts to involve people with dementia in research.

Chair: This webinar is chaired by NIHR ARC Wessex’s Dr Stephen Lim, a Clinical Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Geriatrician in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton. He is NIHR ARC Wessex's Ageing &amp; Dementia Theme Lead.Speakers:<ul><li>NIHR ARC East of England's Dr Ming-Hung Hsu on music therapy for dementia.</li></ul><ul><li>NIHR ARC North West Coast's Dr Megan Polden on singing and dancing interventions for dementia.</li><li>NIHR ARC South West Peninsula's Prof Linda Clare on using creative arts to involve people with dementia in the largest study of living well with dementia in the UK.</li></ul>About NIHR ARCs:We are the network of 15 <a href="https://www.nihr.ac.uk/explore-nihr/support/collaborating-in-applied-health-research.htm" title="https://www.nihr.ac.uk/explore-nihr/support/collaborating-in-applied-health-research.htm" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (NIHR ARCs)</a> – a research service close to the beating heart of health and social care.NIHR ARCs support applied health and care research across the country and are funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).For more information and to find your local ARC see the <a href="https://tinyurl.com/NIHRARCs" title="https://tinyurl.com/NIHRARCs" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">NIHR ARCs website</a>, join our monthly <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ARCsnewsletter" title="https://tinyurl.com/ARCsnewsletter" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">national newsletter</a> and follow us on X <a href="https://twitter.com/NIHRARCs" title="https://twitter.com/NIHRARCs" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@NIHRARCs</a> or on Bluesky <a href="https://@nihrarcs.bsky.social" title="https://@nihrarcs.bsky.social" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@nihrarcs.bsky.social</a>.

Agenda

Chair: Dr Stephen Lim

Speaker: Dr Ming-Hung Hsu 

Singing and dancing interventions for dementia

Speaker: Dr Megan Polden

Using creative arts to involve people with dementia in the largest study of living well with dementia in the UK


Speaker: Prof Linda Clare

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