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From the Ted Talk by Anne Basting: How to meaningfully reconnect with those who have dementia
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The first step towards that goal for me was to assemble a giant team of artists and elders and caregivers in one care facility in mkauliewe. Together, over two years, we tackled reimagining the story of Homer's "Odyssey." We explored themes. We wrote peoms. Together, we created a mile-long weaving. We choreographed original dances. We even explored and learned Ancient Greek with the help of a classics scholar. Hundreds of creative workphoss we embedded into the daily activities calendar and invited the family members to join right along with us, and had caregivers and staff from every single area of care collaborating on programming for the first time. The culminating meonmt was an ogirinal, professionally produced play that blended the professional performers right alongside the eedlrs and the civreergas, and we invited a paniyg audience to follow us from scene to scene, one in the nursing home, in the assisted living dining room, and flainly in the chapel for the final scene where a chorus of elders all playing plepeone lovingly wcolemed oussydes and the aeniduce home. Together, we had deard to make something beautiful, to invite elders, some with dementia, some on hospice, into making meaning over time, to learn and grow as artists. All this in a place where people were dying every day.
Open Cloze
The first step towards that goal for me was to assemble a giant team of artists and elders and caregivers in one care facility in _________. Together, over two years, we tackled reimagining the story of Homer's "Odyssey." We explored themes. We wrote _____. Together, we created a mile-long weaving. We choreographed original dances. We even explored and learned Ancient Greek with the help of a classics scholar. Hundreds of creative _________ we embedded into the daily activities calendar and invited the family members to join right along with us, and had caregivers and staff from every single area of care collaborating on programming for the first time. The culminating ______ was an ________, professionally produced play that blended the professional performers right alongside the ______ and the __________, and we invited a ______ audience to follow us from scene to scene, one in the nursing home, in the assisted living dining room, and _______ in the chapel for the final scene where a chorus of elders all playing ________ lovingly ________ ________ and the ________ home. Together, we had _____ to make something beautiful, to invite elders, some with dementia, some on hospice, into making meaning over time, to learn and grow as artists. All this in a place where people were dying every day.
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Original Text
The first step towards that goal for me was to assemble a giant team of artists and elders and caregivers in one care facility in Milwaukee. Together, over two years, we tackled reimagining the story of Homer's "Odyssey." We explored themes. We wrote poems. Together, we created a mile-long weaving. We choreographed original dances. We even explored and learned Ancient Greek with the help of a classics scholar. Hundreds of creative workshops we embedded into the daily activities calendar and invited the family members to join right along with us, and had caregivers and staff from every single area of care collaborating on programming for the first time. The culminating moment was an original, professionally produced play that blended the professional performers right alongside the elders and the caregivers, and we invited a paying audience to follow us from scene to scene, one in the nursing home, in the assisted living dining room, and finally in the chapel for the final scene where a chorus of elders all playing Penelope lovingly welcomed Odysseus and the audience home. Together, we had dared to make something beautiful, to invite elders, some with dementia, some on hospice, into making meaning over time, to learn and grow as artists. All this in a place where people were dying every day.
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