Art Therapy Activities : Art Therapy Projects for Alzheimer's Video Lecture | Art Therapy: The Power of Healing - Art & Craft

I'm Deb shoemaker and I'm an art
therapist with integrated therapy
associates and I'm going to present to
you now some basic information about how
art therapy can be used with people who
have Alzheimer's and I think with
Alzheimer's that one of the main things
is a loss of sense of self and the
artwork on some level can recreate that
sense of self even if it's for you know
a fleeting moment there Verity does make
making their mark on the on the paper or
on the canvas or with the clay and also
it's a sensory stimulation so one of the
things we know about the elderly is that
when there's sensory deficits like not
being exposed to sounds and smells and
music or textures or using their
creative side that's when there's a
downfall and so using the art with
people with Alzheimer's or the elderly
in general isn't way to to use sensory
stimulation and the other component in
art therapy it's just from is
reminiscing and that's part of the life
review process and aging that was
someone with Alzheimer's using maybe
collage again or photographs and if you
could get family members to let you make
copies of old photographs that you can
actually cut up to make a collage and
that can create a sense of connectedness
again or putting things back together
and evokes memory like there's some
familiar familiarity in the faces and
and even if you can't get the photos you
can use images from from the time when
they were younger to to jog the memory
to to reminisce about the past and that
and that's just part of the life review
developmentally
healthy aging and that was some basic
information about how art therapy can be
used with people who have all