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Art Activities with Memory Care Residents

on August 03, 2010

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Bulletin Boards in Assisted Living (January)

Food for Thought

Throughout my experience in running these groups, I've noticed the difficulty in quantifying the results. I look back at the groups and the activities and think, So what? What are the participants getting out of these experiences? The answer is, I'm still not really sure. All I can do is to try and record my observations to the best of my ability and to make note of any patterns or tendencies I see. I don't have any statistical data to summarize these results, but I don't think it matters. Recording the participants' tendencies usually provides sufficient supporting evidence for my thesis: Older persons with communication difficulties will benefit from art therapy more readily than will "normally-aging" individuals. I think that idea has become pretty clear through all of this. Here are my conclusive, qualitative data so far: 1. Individuals with dementia and CVA tend to participate more readily in the projects than do normally-aging people. 2. Among all th...

Longview: 2/4/08

I think the first group was really successful. I was met with much less resistance than I had originally anticipated for. I started the class off with a warm-up activity, something I plan to continue to do before the main activity every time we meet. The warm up activity was a way for them to loosen up a little- especially important for the first time we met. I chose to use the "Conversation in Pairs" exercise, which I adapted from the book, Art Therapy for Groups by Marian Liebmann. In this activity, the residents were paired up with the person next to them, and each pair was given a piece of 11x18 drawing paper. Next, each person picked a crayon (any visible color as long as it was different from their partner's color), and I told them to have a conversation with their partner, without speaking and without writing any words on the paper. The only way they were allowed to communicate with each other was by drawing. I could tell there were a few skeptics in the room, a c...

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