“Society needs to help unlock the potentials of the individual with dementia.”

I just want to talk about creativity. Society needs to wake up and help to unlock the potentials of the individual with dementia. There is a mile of potential being wasted. Creativity such as singing, dancing, painting gives us the chance to be able to get in touch with our lives with our sensations and our emotions. The emotional and creative sensitivity is just as important as the physical nursing needs. There needs to be a need to deal with our inner selves. Society and part of the media are still ignorant about dementia. They concentrate on the negatives and the sadness of the disease, never the positives. People don’t realise that you can still tap into the creativity of anyone regardless of their logic or how much their memory has been disrupted. End of report.