This Fabulous Montreal Based Program Needs Your Support – Vote!

The Alzheimer Society of Montreal needs your help! Their activity centers are threatening to close as a result of difficult financial times. This respite program, which includes art therapy, is reaching out and asking people to vote for their activity center project that will give them funding to keep them open. More importantly, the people with Alzheimer’s and their families desperately need your help and this is the place where miracles happen.

A vote a day can save them from closing their doors, I ask that you check out the link below, register (really easy…15 seconds) and vote daily or as often as you can. Unfortunately it is much like a “popularity contest” but well worth it if they win. You can share the link on Facebook too as I have done, creating even greater awareness and support…remember a vote a day until the end of November, please try to do it as often as you can this is an opportunity where the simple click of a button can make a huge difference!

Vote Now!

(this text is an excerpt from an email by Dayna M)

Art Links Montreal

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). The program consists of a one hour visit to the museum and a one hour art making workshop. The project was developed with Amanda Beattie, who is specializes in art and museum education and partnerships, as well with the program Musée en Partage. It’s wonderful to have a partnership with the cultural community, and all the educators involved.

To view the May 2010 invitation in English click here. To view the invitation in French, click here.

GPS Shoes for Alzheimer’s

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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 on their own.

What a brilliant idea! As someone who knows all too well the experience of having a much loved grandmother wander off in a public area, this product can’t come out soon enough.

TTAP Method- Artx and Alzheimer’s

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. Dr. Levine Madori is also the author of a new book, Therapeutic Thematic Arts Programming for Older Adults.

Here’s a youtube video where Dr. Levine Madori breifly talks about Alzheimers, the brain and the TTAP method: