This morning before the conference began, I took a walk on Granville Island and discovered "Sea Village" which is a small community of architecturally interesting houseboats (and mailboxes). I wonder what they're like in a storm... The meeting today consisted of a number of excellent presentations and one that totally gave me the creeps because it was by an extremely narcissistic baby-boomer pseudo-hip academic psychologist who is probably quite attractive to naive undergraduate women. Need I say more...
It's fascinating to hear folks from Australia and Canada talking about trying to persuade administrators that the arts in dementia care matter. I do think progress is being made and look forward to hearing more tomorrow about an "instrument" that's been developed to quantify creative engagement for care conferences. There are visual artists, musicians, theater people, etc. here, in addition to recreation therapy folks, MDs, skilled care facility administrators, psychologists and others. I gave a talk this morning and moderated a discussion at the end of the day. Tomorrow will be another full day, but the conference ends at 4:00 so I'm hoping to poke into some of the markets on the island and take some more pictures.
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