Art therapy helps Alzheimer’s patients connect with past, keep busy in future
Bradenton Herald
Archie flips through the pages of a National Geographic magazine, looking for photos that remind him of favorite faraway places.
“Did you travel much when you were in the service?” Marjorie Hilkert asks Archie, a retired two-star general.
“Yes,” he replies, still turning the pages.
When Archie, 80, finds a water scene he likes, nursing assistant Monica Leon Galarza cuts it out. Using a glue stick, Archie pastes the page onto a collage he’s making.
Archie and eight residents in the Memory Care Unit at Patriots Colony in Williamsburg, Va., use pages from magazines to create collages during a Memories in the Making art program. The weekly, hour-long art sessions with clay, watercolors and other media are designed to focus on what they can recall.
Posted on October 30, 2009 | No Comments | Category: Alzheimer's, Caregiving, Dementia | Tags: art
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