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Tag Archives: Museums
Evidence on the Potential of the Arts for Improving Mental and Physical Health and Wellbeing (WHO)
Summary The World Health Organization has published an evidence review broadly supportive of the notion that engaging with the arts is beneficial for mental and physical wellbeing. In addition to being able to help prevent ill health (physical and mental) … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), International, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Parkinson's Disease, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
Tagged Aesthetic Engagement, Animations, Arts Activities in Emergency Settings, Arts and Mental Wellbeing, Arts and Music in Dementia, Arts and Social Activities, Arts Engagement, Arts Practices in Healthcare, Arts Therapies, Attending Literary Festivals, Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), Cognitive Stimulation, Cognitive Stimulation and Lifestyle, Community Arts Programmes, Community-Based Arts and Health interventions, Concerts, Crafts, Creative Arts, Creative Arts for Dementia, Creativity, Creativity and Artistic Appreciation in Dementia, Cultural Arts Interventions, Cultural Arts Interventions in Dementia Care, Cultural Engagement, Culture, Dance, Dance / Movement Therapy, Dementia and Imagination, Dementia-Focussed Arts Activities, Design, Digital Arts, Dr Piroska Östlin: WHO Regional Director for Europe, Engagement With the Creative Arts by Older People, Evaluation of Arts-Based Interventions, Evocation of Emotion, Exercise Activities, Film, Galleries, Health Behaviours, Health Benefits of Arts Engagement, Health Evidence Network (HEN), Immune System, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care: University College London, Involvement of the Imagination, Literature, Multi-Sensory Stimulation, Multisensory Stimulation, Museums, Music, Online Arts, Painting, Performing Arts, Photography, Physical Activity, Physical Exercise, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Reading, Referral Mechanisms From Health and Social Care to Community Arts Programmes, Reminiscence and Sensory Stimulation, Sensory Activation, Sensory Stimulation, Singing, Social Integration, Social Interaction, Social Prescribing, Theatre, Visual Arts, WHO European Region, WHO Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization (WHO), Writing
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Dementia Evidence Toolkit Launched (PSSRU at LSE / MODEM / NIHR)
Summary The new Dementia Evidence Toolkit has been built on a database of 3,000 journal articles and 700 reviews of research studies. This ambitious and world-leading online resource aims to offer a one-stop “hub” from which to access the latest evidence … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Antipsychotics, Assistive Technology, Commissioning, Community Care, Delirium, Depression, End of Life Care, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Guidelines, Hip Fractures, Hypertension, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NIHR, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nutrition, Pain, Parkinson's Disease, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, Systematic Reviews, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged ADLs/IADLs, Advance Care Planning (ACP), Ageing Population, Alzheimer’s Disease, Care Home Admission Delay, Carer Burden, Carer Outcomes (Financial Burden and More), Carers’ Mental Health, Carers’ Physical Health, Choice in Health and Social Care, Co-Morbidities, Cognition, Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST), Community Settings, Consumer Experiences of Health and Social Care, Day Care, Dementia (General / Unspecified), Dementia Evidence Toolkit, Dementia Evidence Toolkit (MODEM): Evidence Database, Dementia Evidence Toolkit (MODEM): Evidence Summaries, Dementia Research, Dementia: What Works?, Depression and Anxiety, Early-Onset Dementia, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Education and Staff Training, ESCR and NIHR’s Improving Dementia Care Initiative, Extra Care Housing, Fronto-Temporal Dementia, Global Leadership, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Services, Hospital Inpatient Care, Hospital Outpatient Care, Hospital Use Reduction, Huntingtons, Innovation in Health and Social Care, Instruments Measuring Carer Burden, Lewy Body Dementia, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Long Term Residential Care Without Medically Trained Staff, LSE's Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), Maintenance Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST), Memory Clinics, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Modelling the Outcome and Cost Impacts of Interventions for Dementia Project (MODEM), MODEM, MODEM (Modelling the Outcome and Cost Impacts of Interventions for Dementia) Project, Museums, Music Therapy, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)’s Improving Dementia Care Initiative, Nursing Homes, Outcomes, Parkinson’s Dementia, Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU): London School of Economics and Political Science, Physical Health, Pick’s Disease, Prevention and/or Management of Co-morbidities, Primary Care, Professor Martin Knapp: Director of the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), PSSRU at LSE, Quality of Life of Carers, Quality Of Life Of Person With Dementia, Satisfaction With Care/services, Service Cost Reductions, Service Use, Specialist Dementia Centre Care / Memory Clinics, Staff Training, Staff Training in Assisted Living Residences (STAR), START: STrAtegies for RelaTives, STrAtegies for RelaTives (START), Supporting People with Dementia and Their Carers in Health and Social Care, Types of Dementia, Vascular Dementia, Workforce Training
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Dementia-Friendly Yorkshire (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
Summary This Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) report presents twenty “grassroots” dementia-friendly projects, which are examples of how communities across Yorkshire are being transformed along more dementia-friendly lines. The projects have been based in shops, churches, mosques, legal services, cafes, and … Continue reading
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Age-Friendly Cities, Age-Friendly Cities and Communities, Age-Friendly Communities, Age-Friendly Environments, Airedale General Hospital, Airedale General Hospital: Keighley, Alzheimer’s Society Bradford Area, Bradford, Care in Local Communities, Church of England, Church of England Diocese of Bradford, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, City of York Council, Co-operative Society, Creating Dementia Friendly Environments, Dementia Café, Dementia Cafes, Dementia Friendly Acute Hospitals, Dementia Friendly Communities Programme, Dementia Friendly Doncaster, Dementia Friendly Extra Care Housing, Dementia Without Walls, Dementia Without Walls (York), Dementia Without Walls Project, Dementia-Friendly Churches, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly City, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Community Model, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Dementia-Friendly Libraries, Dementia-Friendly Towns, Dementia-Friendly Villages, Dementia-Friendly York, Dementia-Friendly Yorkshire, Doncaster, Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group, Doorstep Crime Project, Fenwick Department Store: York, Health Action Local Engagement (HALE), Health Action Local Engagement Healthy Living Project, Hull & East Yorkshire, Hull & East Yorkshire NHS Trust, Intergenerational Cohesion, Intergenerational Mingling, Intergenerational Relations, Intergenerational Solidarity, Joseph Rowntree School in YorkJoseph Rowntree School in York, Keighley, Leeds, Libraries, Local Community Assets, Local Community Groups, Meri Yaadain Project, Museums, North Yorkshire County Council Libraries, Northallerton, Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia, Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, Roshni South Asian Women’s Resource Centre, Rothwell, Rowntree Foundation, Schools, Sheffield, Shipley, South Asian Communities (in Bradford), South Asian Community, Sport and Active Leisure: City of York Council, Sport and Leisure, Tea Cosy Memory Café: Rothwell, Trading Standards, Trading Standards Doorstep Crime Project, Transport, York, York Dementia Without Walls, York Hospital, York’s Dementia Without Walls Initiative, York’s Sport and Active Leisure, Yorkshire
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