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#IM STILL HERE SERIES#
Over a series of weeks, participants are guided by a trained horseperson to get to know “their” horse by name and for the horse to get to know them. Small groups of persons living with dementia make weekly visits to this friendly therapeutic horse farm to participate in a carefully designed equine engagement program. Equine Therapy Program at Windrush Farm, Andover, MA.Four-hundred couples have received these art kits to help them engage in meaningful art projects in their own homes. The kits include paints, brushes, paintings from the public realm to inspire or copy, song lyrics, and of course instructions, A follow-up call is made to check on their use and help out. This I’m Still Here grant supports the creation and national mailing of art kits to couples with a member living with dementia. Art Is…In Program by University of Chicago Medicine Memory Center and GoldMind Arts for curated art kits.
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Local news articles spread the positive word that these events represent. Each monthly event includes live music in outdoor community venues including a riding stable, a local museum, and parks. The program reduces stigma through community awareness while promoting dignity, supporting independence, and fostering community engagement. This program offers social events throughout the community for persons living with dementia-mostly living at home and getting out infrequently-and their care partners. Community Social Connections Program by Martha’s Vineyard Center For Living, MA.
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Not only did the program help to overcome shut-ins during these COVID years, it has also been made available to neighboring towns and cities. The I’m Still Here grant supported specialized dementia training for online yoga instructors, enabling them to engage persons living with dementia at home along with their care partners in weekly online yoga classes. Virtual Yoga Classes by the Town of Arlington, MA.Poydras created a partnership with a local animal rescue organization through which persons living with dementia groom rescued dogs for adoption into their “forever homes.” The program touches each person’s hard-wired need to help others as well as being touched by animal companionship and enduring social, emotional, and tactile experiences. Man’s Best Friend Program by Poydras Home in New Orleans, LA.
#IM STILL HERE FULL#
March 10: Invitations sent to organizations selected to submit full application.Īpril 1: Deadline for complete applications.įor further information contact: Mary Anne Grant, Executive Director, 78 or 70. Timelineįebruary 28: Deadline for Letters of Inquiry Step 2: Submit a complete proposal upon invitation from I’m Still Here. Step 1: Submit Letter of Inquiry using the attached form. Book shops, theaters, parks, animal shelters, and other venues can be places for engaging activities that serve those living with dementia and help reduce fear of dementia and related stigmas. I’m Still Here supports programs that embrace the local community as a way to help individuals facing Alzheimer’s and dementia. Engagement in community provides meaning, dignity, and acceptance for persons living with dementia, their care partners and the community at large. Music, painting, sculpture, comedy, drama, poetry, and the other arts link together separate brain locations in which memories and skills lie.” Community ProgramsĪ fundamental principle of I’m Still Here is engagement in life, in family, in community. “Art touches and engages the brain in a more profound way than other activities. It gives meaning to life and it is meaning the people living with Alzheimer’s so dearly crave.” “The arts can provide meaning in what to many is experienced as an every-increasingly meaningless life. As John Zeisel wrote in his ground-breaking book, I’m Still Here: A New Philosophy of Alzheimer’s Care, In 2022, I’m Still Here will provide seed funding for new innovative programs within two general categories: The Artsīased on its decades-long success creating innovative arts and cultural programs for persons living with dementia, I’m Still Here recognizes the value of all the arts in engaging persons living with dementia. Grants may be awarded for up to $10,000 for programs that capture the I’m Still Here principles and which utilize the arts in any way to engage persons living with dementia and for other activities in communities. I’m Still Here invites applications from individuals, community organizations, nonprofits and others for support. All awards are based on the effectiveness of utilizing I’m Still Here principles which underscore the importance of engaging persons living with dementia and their care partners in all aspects of community and family life. I’m Still Here is dedicated to helping persons living with dementia to flourish by supporting nonpharmacological engagement programs.