Creatively Engaging

Magdalena's site...
https://www.magdalenaschamberger.com

BOLD Scotland
https://bold-scotland.org/find-out-about-bold/

Magdalena's Projects...
https://www.magdalenaschamberger.com/projects/

ECRED 
Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia
School of Health in Social Science
https://www.ed.ac.uk/health/research/centres/ecred

Queen Margaret University
https://www.qmu.ac.uk

University of Edinburgh
https://www.ed.ac.uk

Podcast links...

Arts and Aging Day Canada 2021 Website:
https://the-ria.ca/events/arts-and-aging-day-canada-2021/

Schlegel Villages:
Canadian owned and operated, Schlegel Villages manages quality long-term care and retirement Villages across Ontario. It was 1953 when Wilfred Schlegel bought the family’s first nursing home and today our Villages benefit from a legacy of many years of direct experience co-owning, managing and operating Long-Term Care and Retirement Communities in Ontario.https://schlegelvillages.com

Sheridan College:
https://www.sheridancollege.ca/research/centres/elder-research

Arts and Aging Day Canada hashtag:
#artsandagingca

Anne Basting, a leader in the Creative Care movement. 

https://www.anne-basting.com

Anne talks about past project and current projects during this inspiring conversation.

https://www.anne-basting.com/projects

Her books.

https://www.anne-basting.com/writing

The Non-Profit Organization she founded, TimeSlips.

www.timeslips.org

Explore her latest book in greater detail!

https://www.anne-basting.com/creative-care-1

Intro Banjo Music by Danish musician Michael Staun. 

https://michaelstaun.dk

Outro Banjo music by the very talented, and local Gibsons musician, Matthew Lovegrove!

https://northernfolklore.com

In today’s discussion we dig into Susan’s latest book and uncover a wide range of topics that touch on…

• the personal, how we have those hard conversations around dementia with those we love.
• Adjusting our optics to see Dementia and Care as a Social Experience through the power of Creative Engagement
• Exploring how a grassroots approach can be successful in Building a network of Memory Cafes.
• We touch on an area that Susan is extremely knowledgeable in… Exploring the power of Spiritual Connections as we reimagine Dementia while reimagining our communities.

Today's episode is an important one.

My guest is Dr.Aaron Blight. He is the founder of Caregiving Kinetics and has dedicated his professional life to expanding the world’s capacity to care for the aging population. Aaron's career spans more than 20 years of leadership as a caregiving provider, policymaker, and researcher.

Caregiving Kinetics, Aaron's company is an internationally-oriented firm offering caregiving consulting services to organizations and groups all over the world. With our unique understanding of both caregiving as well as organizational science, we help our clients improve their leadership capacity, shape organizational culture, and traverse through change. Our clients include organizations that employ caregivers; groups serving families who care for aging loved ones; healthcare providers interested in caregiving; and researchers focused on paid or unpaid caregivers.

https://caregivingkinetics.com/about/

Get the book...

https://caregivingkinetics.com/get-the-book/

Music intro and outdo by Matthew Lovegrove of Woodland Telegraph. 

Gary Glazner

Executive Director, Alzheimer's Poetry Project

300 8th Ave. #5G Brooklyn, NY 11215

505-577-2250 cell

www.alzpoetry.com

https://www.youtube.com/user/alzpoetry?feature=mhum

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/poetry-project-helps-dementia-patients-live-in-the-moment

www.imaginationnetwork.org

www.timeslips.org

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