Creativity, Connection, Community

With a growing understanding of the life-course risk factors for brain health, how do we take an integrated approach to building and supporting brain healthy communities for all ages?

This Brain Health & Housing Seminar explored how creativity can be used as a tool for building and sustaining brain healthy communities. Speakers examined how the arts can play a major role in bolstering brain health through creating community and easing isolation and loneliness as well as how these ideas can be incorporated into design and planning.

The seminar was chaired by Aine Kerr, journalist and co-founder of Kinzen.

Watch the recording from the Event below.

Welcome and Open

Linda Doyle—Provost, Trinity College Dublin

Declan Dunne—Chief Executive Officer, Respond

Speakers

Dominic Campbell—Director, Creative Aging International & Atlantic Fellow, GBHI

Alexandra Coulter—Director, National Centre for Creative Health

Ray Yeates—City Arts Officer, Dublin City Council

Panel

Magda Kaczmarska—Teaching Artist & Atlantic Fellow, GBHI

Karen Meenan—Director, Lewy Body Ireland, PPI & Communications Coordinator, Dementia Trials Ireland & Atlantic Fellow, GBHI

Jess Majekodunmi—Director, Human Sciences Studio, Accenture

Closing Remarks

Brian Lawlor—Deputy Executive Director, GBHI

Read the seminar paper here:

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