Via the Art Therapy Alliance on Facebook:

“Giving them different opportunities to express and experience the art was one of the benefits versus playing a game or playing bingo, which is very structured…Art is more individualized and more tailored to having the client express themselves however they choose to.”

“I think we are going to go through a really tough time…We have so much information now, and we have to try to learn as a culture what information we do not want to have.”

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.

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 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.

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