Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice
Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice is an international group of people living with dementia, carers/care partners, family and community members, dementia activists and allies, health professionals, advocates, artists, academics, policymakers, and others.
We share a vision of care and support that promotes inclusion, relationships, creativity, joy and the possibility of growth for everyone impacted by dementia.
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“Spreading and creating more humanity around the world
and leading the end of stigma and the tragedy narrative”
The coalition is made up of people who use play, performance and improvisation in their programs and projects.
Together we creatively challenge the biomedical and institutional approaches to dementia policy and practice, and the fear, stigma and hopelessness they create.
We are mobilizing tens of thousands of people with dementia and their families - together with the communities and care settings in which they live - to support everyone to thrive and grow.
Read a summary about what we have accomplished so far, and where will go next. Where are we to go? A 2023 message from Reimagining Dementia
Read more about why it is time to reimagine dementia:
Separate & Unequal: A Time to Reimagine Dementia.
Click the image above to learn how you can join the coalition, it’s free!
Recognizing the power of the arts for social change, Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice teamed up with Simon Law to create an original song, “Let’s Reimagine” as part of a global campaign.
Taking It to the Streets
Around the world, millions of people are living with and impacted by dementia.
Yet dementia continues to be surrounded by a fear-, shame- and stigma-filled “cone of silence”
that impacts us all.
Together, we can, we must and we will shatter the silence about dementia.
A collection of images from our member’s Taking It to the Streets activities and events in 2023.
How are you reimagining dementia?
Create a video to let us know!
The Coalition invites our members to create a short video (one minute or less) that we will post on social media and on our website and use in other ways. So if you'd like to be highlighted, please create a 45 second to 1 minute video in which you introduce yourself (and others if you want).
Tell us where you live, talk about your organization/company/work and let us know what reimagining dementia (the activity and the Coalition) means to you. Feel free to share in any way you'd like - you can sing, move/dance, create a poem, use sign language or your native language. If you already have a short video you want to use, that's also fine.
You can use your cell phone or Zoom to record the video. If you are using a phone, please record it in landscape mode/horizontal (turn the phone sideways). Make sure to have the volume on your device turned up, ensure good lighting (in front of you) and that you are not sitting with a window or other light source behind you. Once it’s completed, send the file (in mp4 format) - together with your name, title, organization, website and email to: reimaginingdementia@gmail.com. There is no deadline!
View more videos
to learn how others are reimagining dementia.
Member Contribution Feature
A conversation about ‘reframing’ what we think we know about dementia. Listen in on a chat with Reimagining Dementia Coalition members — Myrna Norman, Mary Fridley and Rev. Lynn Casteel Harper who discuss stigma and an alternate way of understanding dementia beyond traditional clinical models or narratives of decline.
Connecting with people living with dementia
If you would like to speak to a person who is living with dementia about their experience please contact us.
Help us reimagine dementia in every corner of the world!
By making a donation in support of Reimagining Dementia