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Expanding Public Value

Digital Resources and online programs (like Arts & Minds) expand museums' reachAuthor: Deborah Howes, Howes Studio,...
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Art Programs Educate and Engage

Author: Hillary MurthaReference: Brain & Life: Wellness Singing, dancing, listening to music, and painting are powerful tools for engaging patients...
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For People With Memory Loss, This National Gallery of Art Tour is ‘good for the Soul, and Good for the Brain’

Just Us program, started with the help of Arts & Minds, thriving since 2017Author: Angela Haupt Reference: DCist Link: https://dcist.com/story/20/02/07/for-people-with-memory-loss-this-national-gallery-of-art-tour-is-good-for-the-soul-and-good-for-the-brain On an unseasonably...
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Art Center of the Bluegrass Hosts Training on Art and Dementia

Arts & Minds educator Hollie Ecker travels to Kentucky to help start program for people...
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The Arts Dispel Medical Students’ Qualms About Dementia

Author: Rebecca VoelkerReference: Journal of the American Medical Association - News & PerspectivesLink: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2732049 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSj18wa51M&t=1s Maybe...
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Life Outside the Lines, Gray Area Podcast

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Navigating Life With Dementia

Arts & Minds co-founder and neurologist James M. Noble MD, offers you and your family ways to successfully face the challenges presented by life with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia in his book Navigating Life with Dementia.

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Fran Kaufman Photographs

Photographer and great friend of Arts & Minds Fran Kaufman, documents the changes in their marriage as she and husband Bob cope with dementia. Her beautiful photos speak volumes. ”Every day brings new challenges, new photos, ways of trying to adapt.“

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Jazz Artist Helen Sung

Acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Helen Sung is a great supporter of Arts & Minds programming. We partnered with her to create Rhythm & Reason during which you are invited to move to the music and learn a bit about how music affects our brains and bodies.

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