TAO Programs Schedule

Memories in the Making® Facilitator’s Workshop

A continuing education workshop

We would like to thank our sponsors.

Memories in the Making® is a multi-disciplinary approach created for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other cognitive impairments. It employs art, music, sensory stimulation, movement, story-telling and socialization to allow individuals to express themselves through the pleasure of creativity.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 10:30 am–4:30 pm

Location: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital, 1309 Kempsville Road, Norfolk, VA 23502

Who should attend:

• Nursing home administrators and other long-term care management staff
• Therapeutic recreation professionals
• Physical therapy professionals
• Activities directors, social workers, and other front-line staff
• Volunteers

More about the workshop

 This is excerpted from the Alzheimer’s Association (Orange County Chapter) website about the program:

“In 1986, artist, board member and caregiver Selly Jenny, whose mother had Alzheimer’s disease, explored the use of an art program to identify how much dementia patients could reveal about themselves through the medium of art. Most had never painted before, yet the response was uniformly positive, revealing and reaffirming.

Alzheimer's dementia brings with it a constant reminder of failures and losses. The Memories in the Making® Art program is not about failure. Every picture is important and valid. Its value lies in the creative process of making the art and expressing feelings and emotions trapped inside. The ensuing sense of accomplishment brings renewed joy and self-respect to the participant.”

“One of the most difficult challenges in day to day life for an individual with Alzheimer’s disease is communicating – not just to get a message to another human being, but to express a feeling, to release an emotion, to tell a story.  Art reaches past normal memory pathways, where failure looms, and allows individuals to communicate with color, sound and emotion.  The Memories in the Making program is a wonderful way for caregivers to help those with a diagnosis to communicate without failure, without embarrassment, without fear.”
      -- Patricia Farish Lacey, Director of Education and Family Services, Alzheimer’s Association