Knitted bathing costumes and weird 1960s fashions in trigger lively debate among those whose minds are winding down
Yorkshire's exceptional collection of home movies has found a new use, in the treatment of elderly people whose minds are not what they were.
Working with the Alzheimer's Society, Methodist Homes for the Aged and Age UK, the Yorkshire Film Archive has created a 'memory bank' of clips collated according to subjects which stimulated most enthusiasm in trials.
At 62, you begin to take an increasing interest in such bright ideas, and there is much fun to be had in speculating about my generation's likely choice of films to stave off the worst effects of dementia. The current ones, which feature in the first package from the bank, include knitted bathing costumes, free school milk, 1960s fashion mistakes, favourite fireworks and clocking on at work.
Sue Howard, director of the archive says:
They...
Yorkshire's exceptional collection of home movies has found a new use, in the treatment of elderly people whose minds are not what they were.
Working with the Alzheimer's Society, Methodist Homes for the Aged and Age UK, the Yorkshire Film Archive has created a 'memory bank' of clips collated according to subjects which stimulated most enthusiasm in trials.
At 62, you begin to take an increasing interest in such bright ideas, and there is much fun to be had in speculating about my generation's likely choice of films to stave off the worst effects of dementia. The current ones, which feature in the first package from the bank, include knitted bathing costumes, free school milk, 1960s fashion mistakes, favourite fireworks and clocking on at work.
Sue Howard, director of the archive says:
They...
- 5/24/2012
- by Martin Wainwright
- The Guardian - Film News
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