Welcome to the new A4D website

launched on World Alzheimer’s Day!

The new site  is designed to make it easy:

• Easy for families to find arts opportunities nearby, on a map and list
• Easy for arts organisations to post, edit and repeat events
• Easy for you to tell us about arts events for dementia in the community

The site will include dementia-friendly arts and heritage venues as these are added over the next few months.

What’s on the website:

• Events
• Dementia-friendly venues
• Resources & evidence:
  – A4D reports: Reawakening Integrated: Arts & Heritage, Music Reawakening and Reawakening the Mind
  – Useful links: Age-related organisations – Dementia-related organisations
  ..Arts in Dementia Care:
  ..General – Visual Arts – Dance – Music – Literature and spoken word
  ..Physical exercise
  ..Carers
  ..General health – Alzheimer’s-specific care – Mental health
  ..Mobility and assistance
  ..Money matters
  – Further Resources:
  ..Becoming a Dementia-Friendly Arts Venue – Bisakha Sarker’s Dancing Moments –
  ..Memory Aids – Books – Studies
  – The Early Stages and How the Arts can Help
  – Media Centre: including images, videos and newsletters
• About Us
• Training

Using the website:

• Finding events and dementia-friendly arts and heritage venues
• Posting events and venues
• Powerpoint – How to post events and dementia-friendly sites

Please note that existing users will, for the moment, have to create new profiles to post events. Existing profiles will be transferred over at a later date.

We welcome your comments and suggestions to website@arts4dementia.org.uk