Older people, dementia and neuro-dramatic-play: A personal and theoretical drama therapy perspective

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Holmwood, Clive 2021. Older people, dementia and neuro-dramatic-play: A personal and theoretical drama therapy perspective. Drama Therapy Review. https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr_00061_1
AuthorsHolmwood, Clive
Abstract

This conceptual article will consider Sue Jennings’ neuro-dramatic-play (NDP)
as an overall theoretical framework for working with older people with dementia.
NDP was developed over a number of years by pioneering UK drama therapist
Sue Jennings. It is a culmination of attachment-based play, drama, movement and
storytelling, and arts-based approaches that are used within drama therapy and
other play and creative-based work with children. The author will consider from a
personal and reflective perspective how NDP approaches can be adapted by drama
therapists to work with older people with memory loss based on almost 30-years
history of being involved in the field of drama therapy as a student and practioner,
and his work with older people, at both the beginning of his career and his current
reflections many years later.

Keywordsdementia; drama; drama therapy
Year2021
JournalDrama Therapy Review
PublisherIntellect
ISSN2054-7676
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr_00061_1
Web address (URL)http://hdl.handle.net/10545/625820
hdl:10545/625820
Publication dates10 May 2021
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Deposited15 Jun 2021, 08:39
Accepted21 Dec 2020
ContributorsUniversity of Derby
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