Therapies for people with dementia
for participants
for carers
A Workshop affiliated to the Centre for Values-based Practice in Health and Social Care (St Catherine’s College, Oxford University).
Timetable:
12.00 pm – Outline of the afternoon from Dr Roz Austin (Collaborating Centre, St Catherine’s College, Oxford University).
12.10 pm – Dr Roz Austin. ‘Co-facilitating Sweet Memories: dementia poems with my granny, Wendy’. Please see: http://www.mindmatters.store/Poetry-Project/poetry-project.html
12.40 pm – John Killick (Author of Poetry and Dementia, published by Jessica Kingsley publishers). ‘Poetry and Dementia: a practical session’. Please see: https://www.dementiapositive.co.uk/john.html
14.00 pm – Coffee break
14.20 pm – Dr Richard Coaten (Dance Movement Psychotherapist working in the NHS in West Yorkshire). ‘Building bridges and dancing the in-between’.
15.20 pm – Panel with Roz, John and Richard: discussing therapies for dementia
16.00 pm – Closing
Event address
McInnes Room, The Warneford HospitalWarneford Lane, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
