Download our one-page information sheet to learn more about the Reimagining Dementia Coalition. Share the sheet with your contacts and networks.

The Global Alliance for the Rights of Older People (GAROP) has launched the Age With Rights campaign. This global initiative is pushing for a new United Nations convention on the rights of older people to ensure that our golden years are characterized by dignity, respect, and equal protection.

Education and guidance on NON-PHARMALOGICAL approaches to reduce agitation and improve the experience of positive emotions in persons with dementia. Examples include: mindful improv, spiritual assessment, bright light therapy, supporting caregiver wellbeing, staff education and training, environmental approaches, doll therapy etc. By Abhilash Desai MD, Geriatric Psychiatrist. 2024.

Margot Escott shares information about the benefits of improvisational theater games for people living with Parkinson’s disease, Multiple System Atrophy and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.

Findings from Arts 4 Dementia’s two-year programme to help advance social prescribing at the onset of dementia symptoms.

This guide of resources collected by AARP and friends of the Global Council on Brain Health (GCBH) was developed with the recognition that Fall 2021/Winter 2022 will bring continued disruptions to people’s social circles as we navigate life during the pandemic.

Cracked is an innovative research-based play and film that follows persons with dementia and their families on their unique journeys, from diagnosis to their new lives in long-term care.

A selection of videos on various culture change topics.

This booklet is for anybody who has dementia and would like to find out how to plan for a good end of life. By The Scottish Dementia Alumni © 2024

Ohio Council for Cognitive Health’s Dementia Inclusive Public Library Guide, including Ohio’s unique Memory Activity Kits. Throughout this FREE resource you will see, not only that living well with dementia is possible, but that libraries have a vital role to play in making this happen. When you use these tools, you will be able to join together with people who are working hard to change the dementia narrative from one of tragedy to one of purposeful and engaged community living. © 2023 The Ohio Council for Cognitive Health

In order to foster broad community awareness building and education about the value of dance for life enrichment for people living with dementia, and to counter stigma associated with dementia, this short documentary film entitled Dancer Not Dementia was developed. The film was a collaboration between Canada’s National Ballet School and KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute – University Health Network. Director: Anthony Grani Producers: Sapna Goel & Pia Kontos. Advisors: Rachel Bar & Romeo Colobong

Videos and information celebrating the many ways in which people with dementia tell a story about who they are, where they have been, and where they are going.

Dementia Creatives

Ashford Phoenix, Pathways in Bradford, peer support group at Beth Johnson Foundation and SUNshiners worked with film- makers from Biggerhouse to make 26 films.

These are the films that people with dementia wanted to make.

Dementia Creatives

Dementia, Your Companion Guide, covers a wide array of topics to assist both the person living with dementia and their care partners. It includes information on the science and progression of dementia as well as practical advice on safety and self-care. Available in multiple languages. © 2024 McGill University.

In this full-length theatrical piece, Simon takes the stage as a man facing his cognitive decline and asks the hard questions of what to do next in the face of what he calls “an existential journey.” It is a peek into the head and heart of the struggle with a broken medical system and a personal and family tragedy. The play challenges the audience to imagine a meaningful future for the millions of people with neurocognitive disease, with accommodation and adaptation. (c) 2012-2023 All rights reserved The Actual Dance, LLC

This digital learning experience uses scenes from Cracked: new light on dementia and goes well beyond the original production; it envelops learners with a cinematic display of audio and visuals while connecting emotionally to the ideas shared. Learners will explore an immersive experience that will help them to see the complexity of identities and relationships, the harms imposed by stigma, the possibilities for fostering a society that values people living with dementia and supports their inclusion and flourishing, and so much more.

Through interviews with people from professional organisations and networks, people living with dementia and their carers, Shared Harmonies created a Song Book and Practitioner Guide on developing ethnically inclusive music and dementia practice.

The Faces of Dementia. An awareness campaign, highlights stories of people living with dementia.

Through compelling videos, beautiful posters, and imagery, Faces of Dementia has been crafted around the stories of people living with dementia and their individual messages that they are so much MORE than their diagnosis.

What is “I’m Still Me”?

The project titled “I’m Still Me” focuses on developing and implementing new attitudes and approaches to support people living with dementia, their families, and care partners by creating awareness, breaking down barriers, assuaging myths of Dementia and related stigma through education and conversation. The project consists of a series of in-person and online community events aimed at creating awareness about dementia, deconstructing mental models, reducing barriers and fostering more inclusive communities.

This booklet was written by people living with dementia, for people living with dementia with helpful advice for others to live well with dementia.

Kristine Cichowski provides practical strategies in this book to help people reframe their mental model on living with dementia.

An anthology of real-life accounts penned by persons living with dementia and care partners across 13 countries in Asia. This eBook project is led by dementia advocate Emily Ong.

Equipping children and families with information, tips and activities to enJOY their relationship with a loved one who has Alzheimer's or any type of dementia.

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Written by Judith Silver, Mum Thumb is a play about the author and her mother. It flashes back to their earlier lives while mainly focusing on the end of the mother’s life, including her journey through vascular dementia. The play is a lesson in kindness, patience and solidarity, exploring the impact of dementia and death on relationships.

Music Is Life, a research-based documentary film, crafts a melodic journey that aims to inspire and create a shift in the current approaches to dementia care to one of relational caring.

A tool-kit for collaborative song-writing to understand what music means to people living with dementia, build and nurture compassionate relationships with people living with dementia, artists, volunteers, students and others, and challenge stigmatizing approaches used with people living with dementia.

The National Council of Dementia Minds (NCDM) is a not-for-profit organization led by persons living with dementia whose vision is to transform the worldview of living with a Neurocognitive Disorder (NCD). They develop and support Dementia Minds groups (persons living with dementia) who create opportunities for dialogue and education for persons living with dementia, licensed health care professionals, researchers, families, care partners, policymakers, and communities at large about strategies to live well with Neurocognitive Disorders.

'The Old House' (a play) interweaves two women’s stories of grief and loss and new found liberation. The links that bind us, the complexities that unite and divide us and ultimately the love that connects us. In life, in loss, in death.

This extraordinary how-to manual provides essential information about living with dementia from 48 people living with dementia, care partners, and leading dementia specialists. The practical, helpful information, grounded in science, is presented in a user-friendly format. © 2022, Dementia Action Alliance (DAA).

Resource library developed by leading experts to help you implement organizational culture change and person-directed care for older adults and those living with dementia. © 2022 by Pioneer Network.