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Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today Training
End date: Aug 29, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Our key aim is to increase knowledge and awareness of positive ways of working through reminiscence to improve the quality of life and reduce the isolation of families living with dementia. Our objective will be to train and support adult learners in different EU countries in creative reminiscence so that they can set up groups and work effectively with people with dementia and their family carers. For people who are losing their capacity to remember the recent past, it has been shown to be highly beneficial in maintaining a sense of identity to recall the more distant past and to bring into the present the key events and achievements in their long lives. Doing this in a friendly and well-structured group helps the family carers to take a longer view of their current situation, to learn new ways of coping and to make friends with other families in similar circumstances. Over the last two years, our Grundtvig Partnership, “Remembering Together” has been responsible for introducing reminiscence to family carers. It has involved partners in ten EU countries in setting up reminiscence groups and exploring what it is possible to achieve with people who are experiencing memory problems and disorientation by using positive reminiscence arts approaches. The families involved assert that they have gained greatly from this experience and feel a greater sense of belonging and self-worth as a result of their involvement in these groups. Now we aim to extend the project to include creative arts workers and new volunteers and to build new links with existing community organisations serving families living with dementia, to encourage them to incorporate reminiscence into their work and to generate new learning for arts, education, social and health workers and for volunteers.

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