Arts 4 Dementia Best Practice Conference "Towards Social Prescribing (Arts & Heritage) for Dementia" Arts 4 Dementia Best Practice Conference, ‘Towards Social Prescribing (Arts & Heritage) for Dementia’The Wellcome Collection, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. First UK conference on social prescribing for dementia, designed to achieve direction to arts as pre- and post-diagnostic support.Who For? GPs, social prescribers and those working with the arts, heritage, creativity, memory and care services.The Programme, introduced by Veronica Franklin Gould, President, Arts 4 DementiaSpeakers:Baroness Greengross, Co-Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group on DementiaAlexandra Coulter, Culture, Health & Wellbeing AllianceDr Daisy Fancourt, UCL presents cultural engagement as protection against cognitive declineProfessor Sebastian Crutch, neuropsychologist, UCLDr Michael Dixon, National Clinical Lead for Social Prescription, NHS EnglandPlenary Debate:Professor Martin Green, CEO, Care England,Dr James Sanderson, Director Personalised Care, NHS England,Dr Charles Alessi GP, Dementia Lead, Public Health England (invited)Janet Morrison, Chair, The Baring Foundation.Arts for early-stage dementiaPoetry with Nick Makoha, Peter and June MillettChoir and organ, with Gemma DixonSocial Prescribing (Arts & Heritage) for Dementia process models, creative befrienders & training, chaired by Dr Simon Opher GP, ArtliftNicky Taylor, West Yorkshire Playhouse, with Leeds NHS CCG prescriberKathryn Gilfoy, Resonate Arts with West London NHS CCG prescriberKate Parkin, Equal Arts, Creative Arts Challenge and Creative FriendsLaunch of ArtsPALs, volunteer creative befriender consortiumBogdan Chiva Giurca, Founder & Chair NHS England Social Prescribing Student Champion SchemeEvaluationProfessor Helen Chatterjee on evaluation of social prescribing projects for dementia.TICKETS £95Please register at https://arts4dementia57.eventbrite.co.uk Booking for this event has now closed. Manage Cookie Preferences