PROGRAMMING • TRAINING • RESEARCH • SPEAKING
“I have lived here a year and this is the first time I have sat through an activity to the end. You made us all poets.”
— Jean, Madison, Wisconsin
Poet-in-Residence, Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care
Working together Glazner and Chicago Scots President, Gus Noble, OBE created the role of Poet-in-Residence at a care home. They designed and developed the position to capitalize on Glazner’s over 20 years of work in the fields of creative aging and dementia arts. Glazner’s responsibilities include collaborating with Noble to re-envision the future of the care home. This unique opportunity of being embedded in the culture of a care community, gives Glazner a home for his life work and the support of CSL. Chicago Scots was founded in 1845 and is Illinois’ longest running non-profit.
APP among the Awardees for Round 2 of the Wisconsin Medicaid HCBS Grant have been selected $12 Million Awarded to 90 Applicants Across Wisconsin. I believe we are the only arts project! Here is what they wrote:
“Congratulations on your recent grant award as part of the American Rescue Plan Act Home and Community-Based Services Grant Initiative. We will be featuring success stories about our grants on our Department of Health Services website. Your application had innovative ideas that we want to highlight for our audiences.
In partnership with the managed care organization Community Care, Inc., this project will offer the Poetry for Life program. This participatory arts program helps older adults and people living with dementia create and perform poems, stories, and songs. Poetry parties at select locations, home visits, and arts support calls will bring creative programming right to participants and families.”
Kelley Cooper, Clinical Nurse Educator with hundreds of Poetry on Wheels poems heading out with the “Home Visit Team.”
Super excited for the Poetry on Wheels launch with Community Care Inc.
The social worker, “Home Visit Team,” will engage people with the Poetry Booklets. Follow-up Arts Support calls to further use the Poetry Booklets with participants will be done by the APP staff. More info
We offer On-Line Training Click here for more info
Work one-on-one with Gary Glazner founder of the APP. He has taught over 3,000 family caregivers, healthcare workers and artists to use poetry as a communication tool to help to connect with people living Alzheimer's disease and related dementia.
Poetry Robot Project
APP has developed an innovative program using telepresence robots. In 2022-23 with funding from the State of Wisconsin Health Department, APP partnered with 6 Wisconsin care homes. Click here to read the final report.
The robot is currently at Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care in North Riverside, IL, where Glazner is the poet-in-residence.
The robots allow for direct communication with family, loved ones, community members, schools etc. to provide aid and comfort to isolated elders. Our goal is to help reduce social isolation for elders in long-term care settings.
This program includes a training program of proven non-pharmacological interventions and resident-centered care tools to help improve the quality of life of elders and those with dementia and other psychosocial needs.
In a pilot-project at Saint Paul Elder Services in Wisconsin the residents had a naming contest and named the robot “Rolly.”
McKenzie Krohn, Activities Director, Saint Pauls Elders Services writes, “It is so great to see the residents so engaged with the programs that include the robot. Technology is a relatively new concept for our friends, but the way they interact with the person(s) on the screen is so heartwarming to watch unveil.”
Dementia Arts: Celebrating Creativity in Eldercare
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Sparking Memories
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Learn to use poetry and the arts to increase interaction and encourage joy in dementia care.
RECIPES FOR:
• Creativity
• Communication
• Joy
• Laughter
• Smiles
• Happy Moments
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We hope this book is of use to you.
Gary compels the reader to move forward into the world of the creative arts and offers a magical ‘recipe’ for success.”
-Carol Steinberg, Past President, Alzheimer’s Foundation of America
This anthology has 64 dichos. It also has well-known Spanish poems by among others, Jose Martí, Luis de Góngora, Nicolás Guillén and Federico Garcia Lorca.