Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Art Museum team up for Alzheimer’s program
Alzheimer's Reading Room
Two of Cleveland’s biggest institutions — the Cleveland Clinic and the Cleveland Art Museum — are working together to make the museum’s art more accessible to Alzheimer’s and dementia patients. In this post, the Alzheimer’s Reading Room suggests bringing the program to the attention of your local museum or library.
According to Kaye Spector in an article on Cleveland.com, in Alzheimer’s disease, “areas that govern emotion, perception and creativity often remain intact.”Forty tour leaders at the Cleveland Museum of Art are being taught how to tailor tours to patients that have Alzheimer’s disease. These special tours will begin this summer.Physicians in the Cleveland area are being advised to encourage dementia patients and their caregivers to sign up for these tours. Apparently, similar tours are already being offered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
via Alzheimer’s Reading Room: Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Art Museum Team Up for Alzheimer’s Program.
Posted on February 26, 2010 | No Comments | Category: Alzheimer's, Dementia | Tags: activities, Alzheimer's, art
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