Objectives
Multiple modifiable risk factors exist across the lifespan to reduce dementia prevalence, and public understanding of these factors is increasing. Yet dementia is frequently misunderstood ...and stigmatised, and dementia prevention is not generally recognised as a health priority. Current limitations of public health campaigns for dementia prevention must be addressed and innovative alternatives developed to improve public comprehension and implementation of preventative action across all stages of life.
Methods
In searching various databases and public information on dementia prevention, restraints were found in current health messaging which did not reflect the complexity of this health issue and address diversity of its impact across cultures and ages. In consultation with researchers and public health organisations, we outline four case studies in Australia where innovative arts‐based approaches have been adopted and discuss the potential for arts‐based approaches to address these gaps.
Results
Arts‐based approaches have the unique capacity to shift perceptions on ageing and dementia, overcome language and literacy barriers, represent health concerns across cultures, and actively involve individuals, communities and healthcare professionals in the process of dementia prevention. Future campaigns can engage a variety of communities and environments with art mediums suited to their preferences, capacities and efficacy.
Conclusions
Recommendations include example mediums, environments and people to engage. Future research is required to understand the impact of, and to improve, the long‐term adoption of innovative arts‐based approaches in dementia prevention practices.
The present research aims to analyse the thematic diversity of the exhibition activities in the Aparte Gallery of "George Enescu" National University of Arts (UNAGE) in Iaşi, respectively artistic ...projects carried out by students, teachers or guest artists of the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design (FAVD), between 2005 - 2020. Furthermore, we will place heavy emphasis on a multitude of formats of artistic events (exhibitions, workshops, conferences, symposia, artistic residencies), associated with various artistic mediums, such as painting, graphics, sculpture, photography, installation, performance, etc. The gallery has become, over time, an authentic space for contemporary art projects, which encourages the experiment and artistic research of all specializations within the faculty. All in all, the purpose of this article is to relate the diversity of artistic event formats, themes and their media variety, in the institutional context of art education, analysing the course and evolution of the Aparte Gallery space.
" Music is acknowledged as an arts medium with a universal and timeless potential to influence our behavior and emotions. As international research about the effects of music on well-being expands it ...is timely to consolidate and report the gains in the profession of music therapy through this first Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy. With a foreword by Professor Colwyn Trevarthen (Emeritus, University of Edinburgh) this handbook provides an overview of some populations who are served in music therapy, with information about the contexts in which practitioners work. These include mental health services, hospitals, education programmes, and rehabilitation services. The people who come to music therapy either through self-referrals or by referral from a practitioner or service are described in detail by practitioner researchers most of whom are qualified at doctoral level. A range of chapters from internationally recognized experts has resulted in a substantial multidisciplinary, and pluralistic account of recent advances and applications in music therapy. The handbook presents an overview of many of the models and approaches that have developed in the field since its inception. Many of these chapters were written by the founders of the methods. Multiple perspectives to practice are honored in this text, with music therapy predominantly described as a relational therapeutic practice throughout. "
