From Pascale Godbout, a Montreal based art therapist with the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada:
Inspired from the program in New York, Meet me at MoMA, last fall we started a pilot project of monthly visits adapted for people with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers, at the Musée des beaux arts de Montréal (Montreal museum of fine arts). [...]
Pascale Godbout is offering free weekly art therapy groups, conducted in French and English respectively, for both caregivers and people living with Alzheimer’s disease.
For more information check out this flyer.
A new technology is being developed to help those with Alzheimer’s disease, who are at risk for wandering. GTX corp is working on GPS shoes that would track the exact location of a loved one whose cognitive impairments make it likely that they would become confused or get lost if they were out and about [...]
Dr. Linda Levine Madori, Recreation Therapist and ATR-BC, is currently in Finland teaching the TTAP method (Therapeutic Thematic Arts Programming for Older Adults) in several Universities throughout the county. She is blogging about her experiences, and was recently interviewed for the Creative Therapy Sessions podcast with Melissa Solorzano, available through Melissa’s website and on Itunes. [...]
