Dementia Arts

by Gary Glazner

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Author: Gary Glazner

Publisher: Health Professions Press

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ISBN 10: 1938870115
ISBN 13: 978-1938870118

Use poetry and the arts to encourage and facilitate communication with people with dementia in a fun and unique way! Dementia Arts guides readers in incorporating poetry, music, and other arts into activity programming to increase interaction and encourage amusement and joy in dementia care. Author Gary Glazner, founder of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project and Institute for Dementia Education and Arts (IDEA), demonstrates how anyone―not just poets or artists―can incorporate creative verbal expression into activities of daily living (as well as day-to-day activities) in an effortless, economical, and enjoyable way. Using simple techniques that build on poetry as a communication tool, you can achieve positive outcomes with people in all stages of dementia, as well as those with challenging behavior. A fun and engaging read, Dementia Arts is perfect for professional and family caregivers, and truly provides the "recipe" for communication success through poetry and art.

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our grasp of language has a beginning in poetry. To see it used at a very different stage of life, and to such effect, was deeply moving." -- Natasha Trethewey U.S. Poet LaureateAs an early supporter of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project, the Alzheimer's Foundation of America is pleased to see how far Gary's message of creative arts enrichment has spread over the years. This book will deliver that message even further, directly into the hands of both family caregivers and professionals so they can engage people with dementia. --Carol Steinberg "President, Alzheimer's Foundation of America"

In Dementia Arts: Celebrating Creativity in Elder Care, teaching artist/slam poet Gary Glazner has created a cook book of recipes to guide caregivers in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, memory care centers or their own homes. In so doing while teaching us dementia-friendly communication skills he helps us participate in building a better --Esther Altshul Helfgott, Ph.D., author of Dear Alzheimer's: A Caregiver's Diary & Poems

Gary Glazner gives us valuable lessons in in how to engage those with dementia using creativity and poetry. If you are open to having fun when caring for others, Dementia Arts: Celebrating Creativity in Elder Care can shift your care culture as you meet the needs of those you serve. --Lori La Bey founder of AlzheimersSpeaks

About the Author

Gary Glazner is the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project (APP). NBC's Today show and NPR's Weekend Edition, Voice of America, and New Zealand National Radio have all featured segments on the APP. These broadcasts and news stories have reached over 20 million people and have helped keep the issue of quality, innovative care for people living with Alzheimer's disease in the public's mind. Harper Collins, W.W. Norton and Salon.com have published his work. Glazner was the Managing Director of Bowery Arts and Science, the non-profit wing of the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, 2007 to 2010.

His poetry performances have been featured on CNN, NPR and underwater on the Bay Area Rapid Transit System. Glazner was the poet-in-residence and coach of the Percission Poetry Drill Team at Desert Academy in Santa Fe, 2005-06. He edited the "Word Art: Poetry Broadside Series," at the Palace of the Governors Museum, where he learned to set type and crank the old printing presses. He is the author of Ears on Fire: Snapshot Essays in a World of Poets published on La Alameda Press. The book chronicles a year abroad in Asia and Europe meeting poets, working on translations and writing poems. Glazner is the author of How to Make a Living as a Poet on Soft Skull Press.

Glazner along with co-producer Don McIver were the winners of the 2004 Special Merit Award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, for The Poetry of Vietnam, which was broadcast on KUNM in Albuquerque. Glazner was the host of Poetry Talk, on KSFR in Santa Fe, 2005-07. In 1990, Glazner produced the first National Poetry Slam in San Francisco.

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