CREATIVITY AND COMMUNICATION IN PERSONS WITH DEMENTIA: A PRACTICAL GUIDE
Book ID/图书代码： 06930011B48679
English Summary/英文概要： Providing people with dementia with opportunities to engage in creative activity can play a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing communication, and in reinforcing personhood and identity. This thoughtful book describes how people with dementia, and the people who work with and care for them, can foster and develop a creative approach, and provides rich and varied ideas for creative activities.
The authors explore the concept of creativity - what exactly it is, its particular relevance for people with dementia and how to get into the creative ’flow’. They introduce a range of creative art forms, including poetry and story-telling, collage, drama, music-making, photography, textiles and working with wood and metal, and suggest possibilities for employing them in a range of settings, and with people of all abilities. Consideration is given to the practicalities of facilitating such creative work, including how to organise and run sessions, how to involve people with dementia and their carers, and how to reflect upon the experience. Practice examples are included throughout the book, as well as the comments and observations of people with dementia, and many examples of the artwork and poetry the authors have created with people with dementia over the years.
Brimming with ideas, suggestions and helpful guidance, this is an essential resource for all those who work with people with dementia, and an inspiring read for people with dementia and their families.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 为痴呆症患者提供参加创意性活动的机会能起到至关重要的作用，尤其在保持和加强交流沟通以及加强人性与自我方面关系重大。本书贴切周到地描述了怎么让痴呆症患者和照顾他们的工作人员一同培殖及运用这种创造性的方式, 并提供丰富多变的创意性活动的主意。
本书的作者们深入地探究了创意性的概念—它究竟是什么，它与痴呆症患者的独特关系以及怎样去进行这样的活动。作者们介绍了一系列的创意性的艺术形式，包括诗歌、故事讲述、抽象拼贴画、戏剧、作曲、摄影、纺织以及用木头和金属制作一些工艺品；作者们还提出了众多可能性的建议，为不同能力的人提供了许多可以雇佣他们的情境。应该考虑到施行这些创造性的工作的实际可行性，包括如何组织和经营各种课程，如何将痴呆症患者同他们的护理人联系起来，以及如何反应这些课程经验。本书从头至尾贯穿了许许多多的实践范例，还有许多对痴呆症患者的评论与观察，以及历年来作者们同痴呆症患者们一起创造的众多艺术品与诗歌的例子。
这是一本充满想法，建议，具有指导性意义的佳作。对于所有为痴呆症患者工作的人来说，本书是非常有用的资源，而对于痴呆症患者及他们的家人来说，本书也是一部鼓舞人心的作品。(XMM & CK)
Awards/获奖情况：’This charming, erudite book presents a wealth of experience about the arts and dementia in a readable and helpful form. The two authors are acknowledged experts with long experience of using a wide range of arts in this field. The book is therefore well grounded in practice and full of inspirational stories. It is also a treasure trove of ideas, suggestions and helpful guidance.’---Mary Marshall, Professor Emeritus, University of Stirling
’This book left me speechless. For years, after being diagnosed with dementia, I moaned that not enough attention is paid to creativity in dementia. Little did I know, a work was in progress. As said inside, it is not meant to be comprehensive, but it covers a lot of ground. I couldn’t put it down. You won’t either.’---James Mckillop MBE, founding member of the Scottish Dementia Working Group
’John and Claire’s timely book shows why being engaged and entertained by singing, looking at paintings, taking photographs, dancing and other activities offers a bridge to joy, satisfaction and self identity for people with dementia. Brimming with ideas, research, reflection, and practice examples and woven throughout with comments and observations of people with dementia, it’s an inspiring, effortless read not only for a wide range of health and social care practitioners, but, importantly, for artists and performers, whose work can help those experiencing a crisis of self, reconnect with life and living.’---Maria Parsons, Director, ARTZ UK: Artists for Alzheimers
About the Author/作者介绍： 作者约翰.基立科有着十六年直接护理痴呆症患者的经验，他曾在疗养院，日托所，医院病房中及痴呆症患者的家中护理病人。他的诗集是举世闻名的先驱之作，但他仍探索运用其他艺术形式来加强交流的可能性。他曾在众多国家演讲，写作，宣传相关知识，并举行了许多训练课程，积极投身于制造让更多各地符合条件的人都能参加这些创意性的活动的机会。 约翰是目前苏格兰老年痴呆症之家的特聘作家，他还为苏格兰痴呆症工作小组管理着一部即兴喜剧的计划。
另一位作者克莱尔.克雷格是一名住在约克郡的有专业资格证的职业治疗专家。她工作的主要重心在于创意与生心健康的关系，尤其是对于那些痴呆症患者。目前她获得了ROMPA生活质量奖，她主要研究疗养院中病人的创意力与灵性。她还曾于2010年因为她的独特新颖的教育方式而获得了高等教育研究院学科中心的教学奖。克莱尔是英国谢菲尔德哈莱姆大学的艺术设计研究中心的资深讲师和研究员。
John Killick has 16 years’ experience of direct work with people with dementia in nursing homes, day centres, hospital wards, and in people’s own homes. His pioneering poetry work is well-known internationally, but he has also explored the possibilities of using a variety of other art-forms to enhance communication. He has lectured, written, broadcasted and run training sessions in a variety of countries and is passionately committed to increasing opportunities for people with the condition everywhere to take part in creative activities. John is currently Writer in Residence for Alzheimer Scotland and runs an improvised drama project for Scottish Dementia Working Group.
Claire Craig is a qualified occupational therapist living in Yorkshire. The main focus of her work is the relationship between creativity and well-being, particularly in relation to people with dementia. She currently holds the ROMPA quality of Life Award for research focusing on creativity and spirituality in care homes and she gained the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre Learning & Teaching Award in 2010 in recognition for her innovative approaches to education. Claire works as a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in the Art and Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University.
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