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Disrupt Dementia With Us

February 15, 2017 | ChangingAging

Disrupt Dementia is a paradigm-shifting non-fiction theater performance designed to de-stigmatize dementia and open a space for new possibilities. During 2016, Disrupt Dementia visited 35 communities across North America as part of Dr. Bill Thomas’ ChangingAging Tour. During these performances we blended verbatim quotes from people living with dementia from ethnographic and participatory action research […]

Disrupt Dementia With Us: Day 1

February 24, 2017 | ChangingAging

Imagine a community where people living with dementia mentor others, feel love, compassion and are comfortable coming out of the ‘dementia closet’. Those were some of the themes we explored in day one of our Disrupt Dementia retreat in Seattle.

Disrupt Dementia

Exploring music, resilience and human connection A first-of-its kind event, Disrupt Dementia invites people living with dementia and those who care about them to experience the power of music and storytelling to deepen human connections, increase resilience and the ability to live well with cognitive change. This immersive and transformational non-fiction theater experience weaves film, music […]

Innovators Take To the Road to Disrupt Dementia

February 17, 2016 | Meg LaPorte, ChangingAging Contributor

Michael Rossato-Bennett, director of the award-winning documentary, Alive Inside, is teaming up with Dr. Bill Thomas’ Age of Disruption Tour to create a first-of-its kind workshop to Disrupt Dementia.

Disrupt Dementia With Us – Day 2

March 2, 2017 | ChangingAging

As we weave what we learned in Seattle into the script for Disrupt Dementia 2017, we hit the road with the goal to inspire the creation of inclusive and kind communities by sharing what is possible when we learn from elders.

Latest Alzheimer’s From The Inside Out Newsletter

August 23, 2012 | Kavan Peterson, Editor, ChangingAging.org

The latest edition of Richard Taylor’s newsletter Alzheimer’s From the Inside Out was published today. If you want a deeper understanding of dementia, and the people who live with it, I highly recommend you become a subscriber by clicking here.

Here’s what Richard has to say about the latest research results to find a cure for Alzheimer’s:

Being Better than a Stick in the Eye

December 27, 2018 | Sonya Barsness, ChangingAging Guest Blogger

I believe the things we do to try to support people with dementia almost always come from a good place. We want to help them. Many times we do not know how. So, we do our best at that time. One might argue that something is better than nothing.

Nevada Goes Dementia-Friendly Statewide

April 3, 2017 | Meg LaPorte, ChangingAging Contributor

Dementia Friendly Nevada asks people with dementia and their care partners, ‘what do you need and how can we help you develop what’s needed in your communities?’”