The Creative Arts in Dementia Care ─ Practical Person-Centred Approaches and Ideas

Viewing the arts as an entree to a person's core identity, Hayes (counseling and dance, U. of Chichester, UK/expressive arts and movement psychotherapist) adapts the life-art method to freeing the creativity of persons with dementia through embodied contact. The guide includes case scenarios, practice suggestions, a chapter by a voice movement therapist, and music, TV, and film as well as literature references. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jill Hayes was awarded her PhD in Dance Movement Psychotherapy by the University of Hertfordshire in 2004. Prior to this, she did her postgraduate professional training as a dance movement psychotherapist at the Laban Centre in London, and studied the Tamalpa Life/Art Process with the Halprins at the Tamalpa Institute, California, where she graduated in movement-based expressive arts therapy. Jill worked as an expressive arts and dance movement psychotherapist in private practice and as a senior lecturer in counselling and dance at the University of Chichester, UK. Sarah Povey has been singing all her life, with church, school, college and community choirs. Fascinated by the healing aspects of the voice, she was attracted to a course developed by Paul Newham and trained as a voice movement therapy practitioner with him, qualifying in 1999. Since then Sarah has been further enhancing her skills and expertise working with older people, both with and without dementia, and with people with learning difficulties. She currently works in care homes across West Sussex and Hampshire.