Dementia in Cultural Mediation

‘Dementia in Cultural Mediation’ (DCUM) is a transnational project driven by the increasing number of people living with dementia in Europe. The initiative is based on the great potential of cultural and artistic activities as an innovative and dynamic approach to achieve social inclusion of people with dementia in local communities and to improve their quality of life. Through learning from the rich body of knowledge and experiences in the field of arts, culture and dementia care that the involved partners from Belgium, Denmark, Spain and The Netherlands have, the project has a clear ambition: to reach out and engage local and regional cultural institutions, health and social authorities and end-user groups that want to embrace dementia in a more holistic way through cultural activities in order to create more dementia-inclusive communities.

The ‘Dementia in Cultural Mediation’ initiative delivers three main outputs: an opensource digital hands-on toolkit of good practices shared through a customized website, audiovisual productions and social media, accompanying didactic training material and a set of recommendations to contribute to future European efforts in the field of cultural mediation for people with dementia.