The European Erasmus+ project ‘A Game-based methodology for empowering dementia-friendly communities and equal access to Culture for people with Dementia (CURATE-D)’, aiming to promote equal opportunities, accessibility and social inclusion for people with dementia in cultural experiences, has successfully concluded the piloting phase with training workshops taking place in Greece, Spain and Ireland. The organisations in the consortium, working with professional carers of people with dementia and professionals working in the cultural field, implemented piloting workshops based on the methodology and tools generated in WP3 and practiced them in real conditions.
The consortium has collected its feedback and will develop a report on final considerations on the methodology of the CURATE-D project. This will be helpful material for other organisations that want to apply the methodology and tools in their context. In Thessaloniki, Greece, The Panhellenic Federation of Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Disorders, in collaboration with the coordinator of the project, Challedu, has delivered two different pilot training workshops. On 15-16 June, the first took place with the participation of professionals working in the dementia field.
On 20-21 June, the second took place in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki with the participation of professionals working in the cultural field. During the pilots, they tested the learning training guide for professional carers of people with dementia, the learning training guide for staff working in the cultural field and the serious game of CURATE-D, using an interactive and experiential game-based learning method. After being finalised based on the feedback from professionals during the piloting, all the aforementioned materials will be freely available on the project’s website: https://curate-d.eu/
The results of CURATE-D are being developed collaboratively since the beginning of the project by the project partners: Challedu, the coordinator; Panhellenic Federation of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders, Thessaloniki and Herakleidon Museum of Athens (all three located in Greece); The Gaiety School of Acting (GSA) of The National Theatre School of Dublin, Ireland; and the Association of Relatives of Alzheimer (AFAV) of Valencia, Spain.
