2020/01/16 by Seifert, Kathrin
Medicine · #610 Medical sciences #Demenzerkrankte #Kunstinterventionen #Kunstprojekte für Menschen mit Demenz #Kunsttherapie #Medicine #art interventions #art projects for people with dementia #art therapy #dementia
paper · doi:10.3205/jat000005
Three art-based projects for people with dementia – ARTEMIS, Transformation, and Hortus Signorum – have been developed, and tested for effectiveness, since Germany adopted the evidence and consensus-based S3 guideline on dementia in 2016. The ARTEMIS project, conducted in a museum, was evaluated by means of a randomized study to assess the impact of interactive, art-based interventions on emotional well-being, quality of life and communication behavior of people with mild and moderate dementia and their relatives. The Transformation project explored the potential for people with dementia of art education in a museum setting in order to create a didactic handbook for an experience-oriented, art mediation practice. The sculpture project Hortus Signorum, developed for male dementia patients, investigated the effects of woodcarving in an experimental study. All three studies showed that people with dementia can successfully participate in art programs thereby improve their quality of life and well-being.