TimeSlips

The TimeSlips creative storytelling method helps people with Alzheimer's disease tap their imaginations to express their dreams, fears and longings. By suspending the expectations to remember, these storytelling workshops invite people with Alzheimer's disease to hone what communication skills they retain.

Participants will learn the meaning and value of creative expression, the storytelling method itself, and ways to use storytelling as a bridge between staff, families, clients and their communities at large.

Goals:

• To increase communication among people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia by creating an environment in which play and imagination are encouraged and in which there are no "wrong" answers
• To help personal and professional caregivers to connect one-on-one with participants through the common goal of creativity
• To encourage respectful group interaction through creativity to share the stories with caregiving staff, families and possibly the community in order to deepen the awareness of the potential of people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias