(not) lovely: Enacting solidarity in dementia care through participatory Arts
Dr Chloé Bradwell is a drama practitioner and aerialist. She has long been one of our associate artists and her expertise spans care, art, and academia. She uses circus, drama, dance, and visual arts to collaborate with care home residents and people living with dementia. She is also a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Dementia Research at Leeds Beckett University. Her work focuses on integrating creativity into daily dementia care and using co-creation to foster community connections for care home residents.
She recently wrote an article about our Walking Through Walls programme at Tower Bridge Care Home. It argues that using creativity to channel and re-frame negative emotions can be game changing in dementia care and challenges the notion that negative emotions must be suppressed to promote wellbeing. You can read her powerful article below.
