Recently Dementia Friendly WNC (DFWNC), a local nonprofit organization, teamed up with the Asheville Rides Transit (ART) to educate their bus drivers on how to understand, interact with ...

Yellow can be dementia-friendly but it’s also not great for mental health ... Art totems at room entrances, with complementary wall art inside, have been used successfully but some projects have been ...

Tony Adlide and his wife Maggie Wall ... in the art they are making on paper with pastels and pens. Around them a dozen or so other pairs are doing the same. Tony lives with dementia and Maggie ...

Photo/video: Drew Evans/The Wall Street Journal ... where a billboard announces that the town of 2,400 people is “dementia-friendly.” Businesses and first responders are trained on how ...

At Augustana Open Circle Adult Day Center in Hopkins, about 80 percent of the members have a dementia diagnosis. "Art gives them a ... piece that will hang on the wall at ICA Food Shelf in Minnetonka.

The aim is to make east Belfast one of the most dementia-friendly places in Northern Ireland. At the heart of the effort is art - alongside a year-long series of events. Residents living with ...

A series of workshops and tours for people with dementia and their carers at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag (Art Museum The Hague) in the Netherlands, aims to use art as a means of connection.

As dementia becomes more prevalent, communities must rise to meet the moment by embracing inclusion and creativity.

art, etc. Here in the Coachella Valley, a local group decided to follow the lead of others throughout the world and across the country where dementia-friendly cafes (often called memory cafes ...