Interview with Dr Anne Davis Basting, 2 E Hay 2013

摘要

Dr Anne Davis Basting is a professor in the Department of Theatre at the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). She is a leader in dementia care and highly honoured and awarded for advocating an alternative dementia culture. Her unique interdisciplinary background intersects scholarly, literary, documentary and theatrical arts with innovative programmes in community care and creative living. Dr Basting's recent book, Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia (2009), along with numerous articles and essays, outlines a new and inclusive way to think about ageing and memory loss. Her inventive story-telling project, Time Slips: A Creative Story Telling Project (see weblink below), has blossomed into an international network of people who listen, learn, record and dramatise the narratives, songs, pictures and dances of people with memory challenges, whose creativity is acknowledged against the perceptions of decline and loss.