Talk:The Society for the Arts in Dementia Care

Hello. This is my first time creating a Wikipedia page. We have plenty of documentation to support the importance and significance of the Society for the Arts in Dementia Care. We are a long-standing non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of those living with dementia by providing international conferences on creative expression, communication and dementia.

In Canada, according to Health Canada, one in four people over the age of 80 will have some form of cognitive impairment. Each year, this population will be increased by 75,000 new cases. Nearly quarter of a million Canadians are currently needed to take care of this aging population. This will undoubtedly cause a major impact on the health care system.

Since there is no cure at this time for dementia, we must find ways to engage people with dementia in other ways that maintain and/or improve their quality of life. The arts have been shown to be an integral part of our human makeup.

Our Society's mandate is to bring forward to the practitioners, academia, the medical field, etc, the important link between the arts, aging and dementia care. There has been a trend in the last 10 years that recognizes that the use of creative expression activities, specifically in dementia care, is crucial to keep these people still engaged in life.

We would appreciate your patience, as this Wikipedia page is still a work in progress. I was just starting to gain an understanding about how this medium works. Please do not delete it. Thank you.Dr. Dalia Gottlieb-Tanaka (talk) 23:13, 20 November 2010 (UTC)