DCUM Training Material
Interest in the added value of cultural participation for people living with dementia has increased over the last decades. Embracing the potential of cultural and artistic activities as an innovative and dynamic approach to the social inclusion of people with dementia and their loved ones in local communities.
‘Dementia in Cultural Mediation’ (DCUM) is a transnational project under the Erasmus+ program. Driven by the increasing number of people living with dementia in Europe, partners from Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain have joined to develop the DCUM project through exchange of tools and learning new ways to practice cultural mediation aimed at people with dementia. All with the clear ambition: reaching out to 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.
For cultural institutions to be able to contribute to social inclusion, it requires special conditions and new competencies of the cultural mediators who convey cultural content aimed at people with dementia.
With this Training Material we present a wide approach for competence development and training of cultural mediators. Meant not only for cultural mediators working in libraries, museums and civil society organizations, but also healthcare staff and (informal) caregivers with interest in integrating cultural activities into working with people with dementia.
The DCUM Training Material is connected to the tools in the DCUM Toolkit and is based on the Van Gelder Didactic Analysis Model. It can be used for knowledge sharing between different local cultural institutions in each partners country and is also highly suitable for dissemination to other international institutions throughout Europe.
Theoretical and methodological considerations Van Gelder model
In the DCUM project, the didactic model of Van Gelder structures the different components of the Training Material.
- Theoretical and methodological considerations Didactic Model
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Sharing the activity
A cultural mediator or cultural organization might want to share their own activity with others. Together with the detailed description of a specific activity, these pages can be used to organise a training to educate (future) cultural mediators inside or outside your organisation to organise the activity by themselves.
- Sharing the activity
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Frameworks for activities
With a didactic setup a detailed step by step description of each activity is created. These can be found under each activity video.
Graphic handouts
A graphic handout is created for all activities. This one page summary is an easy-to-use addition that reflects the main focus of that particular activity. These graphic handouts can be found under each activity video.
Information & Tips
Working with people with dementia requires a certain way of doing things and can present challenges in different ways. Below you can find a selection of useful and inspirational tips are gathered to help with that.
- Communication
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- Challenging behaviour
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- Meaningful interaction
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- Meaningful activities
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- Meaningful art related activities
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- Cultural heritage organizations
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- How to start a project
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- Cultural mediation in Libraries
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- Library environment
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- Person centred approach
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- Constructivist approach
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- Inclusive Research
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- How to enthuse a local community
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Encyclopedia
All separate materials are collected in a final encyclopedia 'DCUM Training Material'.
- DCUM Training Material
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