Chapter 1 Arts therapies, progressive illness, dementia: the difficulty of being / DIANE WALLER -- chapter 2 In the waiting room of the Grim Reaper / KEN EVANS -- chapter 3 The living death: dance movement therapy with Parkinson's patients / JILL BUNCE -- chapter 4 Art therapy in the treatment of chronic invalidating conditions: from Parkinson's disease to Alzheimer's / ATTILIA COSSIO -- chapter 5 Case studies in Huntington's disease: music therapy assessment and treatment in the early to advanced stages / WENDY L. MAGEE -- chapter 6 Art therapy with older adults clinically diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease and dementia / JOHN TYLER -- chapter 7 Real world or fantasy? / KEN EVANS -- chapter 8 Living with dementia: interview with Neil McArthur / DIANE WALLER -- chapter 9 A narrowed sense of space: an art therapy group with young Alzheimer's sufferers / BARRY FALK -- chapter 10 Evaluating the use of art therapy for older people with dementia: a control group study / DIANE WALLER -- chapter 11 Changing the context of care: opening up the system -- interview with Kamal Beeharee / DIANE WALLER -- chapter 12 Art as a therapy for Parkinson's / NANCY TINGEY -- chapter 13 Circles of the mind: the use of therapeutic circle dance with older people with dementia / DOROTHY JERROME -- chapter 14 Nameless dread: a carer's story / DIANE WALLER
Summary
In the last few years arts therapies have been used in a growing range of applications with new groups of patients. This is a guide to the use of arts therapies in the treatment of patients with diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's
