You are warmly invited to join our Drama for Brain Health webinar
If you are involved in creative ageing, or applied drama, and are interested to develop this for people experiencing early symptoms of a potential dementia, to help combat the isolating fear-filled months or years leading to memory assessment and diagnosis, or are a GP or social prescriber link worker or community builder, or involved with a local authority, or with dementia prevention, this webinar gives a range of approaches and guidance into spreading awareness of your activities to reach participants who have much to share, give and learn in the process.
This too will be a cracker - you can see from past recordings and transcripts how much we learn and share!
The webinars are run in association with Arts 4 Dementia and Sir Muir Gray, Director of the Optimal Ageing Programme, The University of Oxford.
Acting in a way different from usual requires the brain to respond to a novel set of stimuli, causing new neutrons to develop and adapt, giving drama protective qualities against cognitive decline. Creating and enacting scenarios with a drama group, in allowing individuals to improvise and develop significant or amusing experiences together, can act as a medium to alleviate depression, which may be a symptom when undergoing assessment for a potential dementia. As Sir Richard Eyre, the director and patron of Arts 4 Dementia, advises continuing the discipline of learning lines. “There’s no better way of exercising the brain.”