Art can be a powerful medicine against dementia

On 19th July 2017, the All Party Parlimentary Group for Arts, Health and Wellbeing launched an inquiry report which gives an extraordinary insight into the work of multiple arts organisations within health and social care. This report captures stories from participants as well as evidence from research and evaluation reports about the impact of this work, and seeks to encourage commissioners to take notice of these benefits.

You can read the full report here:

http://www.artshealthandwellbeing.org.uk/appg-inquiry/

A article published by The Guardian details how ‘art can be a powerful medicine against dementia’, as detailed in the APPG inquiry report. Our Music in Mind programme for people with dementia was one of the programmes mentioned:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/16/dementia-art-and-song-powerful-medicine-nicci-gerrard