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 Dementia

Speakers:

Baroness Greengross, Co-Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia
Alexandra Coulter, Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance
Dr Daisy Fancourt, UCL presents cultural engagement as protection against cognitive decline
Professor Sebastian Crutch, neuropsychologist, UCL
Dr Michael Dixon, National Clinical Lead for Social Prescription, NHS England
Plenary 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 dementia

Poetry with Nick Makoha, Peter and June Millett
Choir and organ, with Gemma Dixon
Social Prescribing (Arts & Heritage) for Dementia process models, creative befrienders & training, chaired by Dr Simon Opher GP, Artlift

Nicky Taylor, West Yorkshire Playhouse, with Leeds NHS CCG prescriber
Kathryn Gilfoy, Resonate Arts with West London NHS CCG prescriber
Kate Parkin, Equal Arts, Creative Arts Challenge and Creative Friends
Launch of ArtsPALs, volunteer creative befriender consortium
Bogdan Chiva Giurca, Founder & Chair NHS England Social Prescribing Student Champion Scheme
Evaluation

Professor Helen Chatterjee on evaluation of social prescribing projects for dementia.

TICKETS £95
Please register at https://arts4dementia57.eventbrite.co.uk