ARTICLE: Dementia as seen through art and design

[ENCATC Arts and Health]

"D.A.S. Dementia. Arts. Society." is an FWF-funded project in which the Viennese artist and researcher Ruth Mateus-Berr and her team are investigating ways to avoid dementia patients suffering from social stigma and to change society's attitude to dementia for the better. In the coming three years, the project team will tackle the issues of an ageing society by focusing on new realities and creating awareness through innovative artistic methods of what it means to be living with dementia.

For more information: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-07-dementia-art.html