Music for Dementia
In Issue 172, HIP ran an article about the benefits of music for dementia sufferers: Astonishing Results with Silent Disco. In this issue we look at what St Leonards – based company Lifesize, a community arts and music organisation that…
Drawing Life – from sketchbook to screen
Sussex-based charity, Drawing Life, holds life drawing classes for people with dementia. Project Director, Judy Parkinson, writes about the challenges they faced in 2020. It is said that every cloud has a silver lining. 2020 has given us no shortage…
Drawing Life’s No-tech Solution to the Covid-19 Lockdown
Drawing Life, the Hastings-based charity, brings art to people living with dementia and other age-related conditions. Now they are releasing a lockdown-proof sketchbook so that their artists can continue drawing. For the last five years we have held regular…
In the Moment
An Exhibition Inspired by People Living With Dementia Depot, Pinwell Road, Lewes, BN7 2JSSaturday 28 September – Saturday 19 October 2019 Preview by Susan de Muth At the end of May this year, I reported to HIP readers on the…
Hastings Care Home Wins National Award For Its “First Class” Dementia Care
By Lisa Pettifer A Hastings care home has scooped a national award for its “first class” dementia care. Hastings Court on The Ridge beat off stiff competition from five other finalists to be crowned ‘Dementia Care Team of the Year’…
Drawing Life: The Exhibition
By Julia Mortimer We here at HIP have written before about the Drawing Life project and the benefits it brings to people living with dementia in care homes in the Hastings and Bexhill area. However, those articles have appeared in…