Storytelling Programme Improves Character Of Life
“The revelation as well as realization that, ‘I can't remember, but I tin IMAGINE!’ blessed my mind, see as well as soul. I promise I recall that until I can't remember!”
 |
| Anne Basting |
In contrast, the TimeSlips Creative Storytelling Project provided some rare skillful tidings for people alongside dementia as well as their families as well as caregivers when it launched a new, costless as well as interactive storytelling website.
The launch took identify at the annual conference of the National Adult Day Services Association (NADSA).
| Subscribe to the |
Using photos as well as give-and-take prompts to inspire participants’ creativity, TimeSlips provides a fun, low-pressure agency for people alongside dementia to spark their imaginations, connect alongside i some other as well as alongside caregivers as well as menage unit of measurement members, as well as limited themselves without worrying close embarrassing retention lapses or “wrong answers.”
Visitors to the novel site tin sit down alongside a mortal alongside dementia as well as read, exercise as well as portion stories inspired yesteryear hundreds of images as well as questions inwards the site’s library of prompts. Or they tin move online alongside menage unit of measurement members across the province to write a storey together.
“Families wrestling alongside dementia are usually consumed alongside the daily challenges of managing care,” said Anne Basting, PhD, Director of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s Center on Age & Community, during a keynote address at the NADSA conference. “The novel website provides a creative as well as positive agency to stimulate got fourth dimension off from focusing on the disease, as well as instead pass fourth dimension growing, learning, fifty-fifty playing together. TimeSlips is a joyful sense that opens the ability of storytelling to everyone yesteryear replacing the delineate of piece of occupation close retention alongside an chance to savor the ability of imagination,” Basting added.
Proven inwards long term care, straightaway available for everyone
The in-person version of TimeSlips has been tested inwards long-term attention settings as well as was especially designed to foster communication alongside people alongside cognitive disabilities similar dementia. Since 1998, TimeSlips has trained to a greater extent than than 2,000 professional person facilitators. Peer-reviewed inquiry suggests that TimeSlips storytelling activities better communication as well as increment the pleasance that people alongside dementia stimulate got inwards their daily lives. In nursing homes settings, it has led to increases inwards social appointment betwixt staff as well as residents.
The novel website provides, “an appealing as well as easy-to-use trigger for families to exercise together, yesteryear listening to each other inwards fresh novel ways,” says Lisa P. Gwyther, MSW, co-author, Living Well After the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, 2011.
Further preparation available
Visitors tin purpose Timeslips.org costless as well as without training, although people who programme to purpose TimeSlips alongside groups of people alongside dementia inwards a multifariousness of attention settings are encouraged to become trained. The TimeSlips Creative Storytelling Project also offers private as well as organizational certification inwards the method.
Timeslips.org as well as the companion online preparation stimulate got been endorsed yesteryear people alongside dementia as well as leaders inwards the fields of aging services, the arts, educational activity as well as civic engagement. “The revelation as well as realization that, ‘I can't remember, but I tin IMAGINE!’ blessed my mind, see as well as soul. I promise I recall that until I can't remember!” said lately diagnosed Dave Sheehan.
About TimeSlips as well as the website
Since its inception, the TimeSlips Creative Storytelling Project has generated thousands of stories as well as farther spreads its message yesteryear sharing the stories publicly through professionally produced plays, fine art exhibits, books, as well as now, its novel website.
Timeslips.org was created yesteryear Sway Design (www.swaydesign.com) which specializes inwards creating opened upwards source, custom software inwards spider web design, spider web as well as identity evolution for large as well as pocket-size companies.
TimeSlips founder as well as managing director Anne Basting is the Director of the UWM Center on Age & Community as well as Associate Professor of Theatre inwards the Peck School of the Arts. She is the author of Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives for People alongside Dementia (2009, Johns Hopkins University Press), and, most recently, author as well as producer of The Penelope Project (www.penelopeproject.wordpress.com) alongside Sojourn Theatre as well as Luther Manor.
The novel Timeslips.org site was developed alongside the back upwards of the Jacob as well as Valeria Langeloth Foundation, the Picker Institute, the Extendicare Foundation, the Helen Bader Foundation, as well as the Retirement Research Foundation.
Contacts
Strategic Communications & Planning
Elliott Walker, 917-846-6334
ewalker@aboutscp.com
Good News on Dementia Care http://bit.ly/q9gsXP
More Insight as well as Advice for Caregivers
- How Alzheimer's Destroys the Brain -- Video
- Test Your Memory for Alzheimer's (5 Best Self Assessment Tests)
- What is Alzheimer's Disease?
- What is Dementia?
- What’s the Difference Between Alzheimer’s Disease as well as Dementia
- Communicating inwards Alzheimer's World
- How the Loss of Memory Works inwards Alzheimer’s Disease, as well as How Understanding This Could Help You
- Learning How to Communicate alongside Someone Suffering From Alzheimer's Disease
- Alzheimer's World -- Trying to Reconnect alongside Someone Suffering from Alzheimer's Disease
- Does the Combination of Aricept as well as Namenda Help Slow the Rate of Decline inwards Alzheimer's Patients
- About the
Original content Bob DeMarco, the