Art and Aging: Digital Projects for Individuals With Dementia

Abstract: In action teaching, assignments are created that simultaneously benefit students and society by directly connecting classroom material to a community intervention. We designed an entire course rooted in the principles of action teaching in which students facilitated the positive effects of art, nature, and music on the well-being of individuals diagnosed with dementia. Groups of three students worked with a local elderly couple, one member of whom had dementia, to create multimedia digital projects (e.g., online scrapbooks, interactive DVDs) involving experiences with art or nature tailored to the needs of their specific community partners. Students met weekly with their assigned couple to discuss their families’ interests, goals for the project, and to obtain feedback on the impact of their project on their families’ well-being. Through these weekly meetings, students took an iterative approach to designing and improving their final projects, applying material learned through clas.... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/4809

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Art and Aging: Digital Projects for Individuals With Dementia ; volume:2 ; number:1 ; day:26 ; month:03 ; year:2014 ; Journal of social and political psychology ; 2, Heft 1 (26.03.2014)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Twedt, Elyssa ; Proffitt, Dennis R. ; Hearn, Donna L.

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v2i1.265
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021032004463276842954
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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