High Impact Practices Student Showcase Fall 2024

Inspiring Memories of Cognitively Impaired Adults Through Art

Inspiring Memories of Cognitively Impaired Adults Through Art

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Course Code

LDR

Course Number

3215

Faculty/Instructor

Dr. Debra Edgar

Faculty/Instructor Email

Debra.Edgar@ucf.edu

About the Author

I, Kayden Peets, worked on this project along with Samuel Levin and Ashley Kulish. We are students in LEAD scholars at the University of Central Florida. We would like to thank Brain Fitness Academy for allowing us to lead our project with their members.

Abstract, Summary, or Creative Statement

Brain Fitness Academy is a place where the elderly with mild cognitive impairments or early dementia meet two times a week in order to improve their cognitive abilities. During our time at the Brain Fitness Academy, we led an art project with the members with the goal of reconnecting them with positive memories of their lives. The art project consisted of questions which correlated to different things that the members would color or glue to their paper. This process made sure that the members worked their brain and used their memory in order to choose answers to the questions.

Keywords

healthcare; Brain Fitness Academy; Service learning; LEAD Scholars; Dementia; Community outreach;

Inspiring Memories of Cognitively Impaired Adults Through Art


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