Everybody gets dementia.
One way or another.
If not us, someone we know. Someone we love.
Since everyone gets dementia, can we all “get” dementia?
Understand it? Get in touch with its grief and its gifts?
Can we remember people living with dementia? And their care partners?
Can we create a dementia-ready world?
Can we “get it” not just in our heads, but in our hearts?
The Booklets
Here are two booklets that deliver dementia wisdom from people who “get” it—in both their heads and their hearts.
Dementia takes slowing down. Dementia takes connecting up. Dementia takes co-creativity.
These booklets help us “get” dementia.
What People Need To Know About Life With Alzheimer’s
From 5 Brave Spirits Experiencing Cognitive Impairment
This booklet features wisdom from people living with cognitive impairment to point us in the right direction. The tactile pages reflect the “extra sense” of Alzheimer’s and remind us to engage with dementia through our head, hands and heart.
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What People Need to Know About Dementia Care
From 5 Courageous Care Companions Experiencing Their Loved One’s Cognitive Change
This booklet speaks to the grief and the gifts of caring for someone living with dementia. It also shares tips for navigating this rugged, sacred work. The care companions’ wisdom and lived experience reminds us of our fundamental wholeness.
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About
About The Pilot Project
The purpose of this website is to promote key takeaways and creative outputs from Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health Rowena Richie’s pilot project, For You: Creative Engagement for Dementia Dyads, conducted between 2020 and 2023.
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Photo by Joe Sofranko
About Rowena Richie
For the past decade Rowena Richie has been immersing herself in creative aging projects for people of all ages and abilities, including people living with dementia. She is a San Francisco-based performance maker and movement practitioner.
