We are proud to be a partner in an exciting project which will provide an opportunity for collaboration and co-creation between academics, practitioners, museums and the public to design an adapted digital participative visual arts intervention for older people with dementia.

Dementia is a devastating condition that affects around 850,000 people in the UK according to the Alzheimer’s Society. So how can digital visual art play a role early on in the disease? Whilst it has been found that music can unlock memories later into the disease, digital visual arts interventions appear to act earlier.

Working with Coventry residents, this project will create digital materials and shared activities using local arts and psychology experts.

The project will lay the foundation for future creative technological developments to support Coventry’s elderly population.

You can find out more information about the project on the University of Warwick website project page.