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Students from NAFA and HCI celebrate the lives of dementia patients at Jurong Community Hospital

By Straits Times Singapore · Published by Everything Blog

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The Arts&Health Festival brought together youth from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and Hwa Chong Institution to celebrate twenty dementia patients. Representatives from NAFA engaged the patients through an interactive sensory showcase inspired by visits to a dementia ward. Meanwhile, HCI participants concluded the hospital event by performing original musical compositions based on patient experiences.

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Creative student showcases honored the lived experiences of twenty dementia patients at J…: Creative student showcases honored the lived experiences of twenty dementia patients at Jurong Community Hospital.
Sensory elements including music, smells, sounds, and familiar objects helped bring the p…: Sensory elements including music, smells, sounds, and familiar objects helped bring the patients' personal memories to life.
The collaborative festival concluded with an original musical tribute inspired directly b…: The collaborative festival concluded with an original musical tribute inspired directly by the patients' stories.

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The TL;DR: The lives of 20 dementia patients became the inspiration for a performance by NAFA students and two original songs written by HCI students. Their performances were part of this year’s Arts&Health Festival at Jurong Community Hospital.

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- NAFA students performed at Jurong Community Hospital’s Arts&Health Festival with “A Suitcase Of Memories”, a sensory show inspired by 20 dementia patients’ life stories.

- The team visited a dementia ward, built a Life Storybook, and used sound, smell and music to bring memories to life and support care.

- Hwa Chong Institution students closed the festival with two songs, "Paint" and "Stay”, inspired by patient stories.

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SINGAPORE - A bedsheet, a kite and a radio – the three objects may seem ordinary, but to 20 Jurong Community Hospital (JCH) patients living with dementia, they are a significant part of their life stories.

Those stories were brought to life through a sensory and interactive performance titled A Suitcase Of Memories, performed by two students and an alumna from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), University of the…

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Creative student showcases honored the lived experiences of twenty dementia patients at J…: Creative student showcases honored the lived experiences of twenty dementia patients at Jurong Community Hospital.
Sensory elements including music, smells, sounds, and familiar objects helped bring the p…: Sensory elements including music, smells, sounds, and familiar objects helped bring the patients' personal memories to life.
The collaborative festival concluded with an original musical tribute inspired directly b…: The collaborative festival concluded with an original musical tribute inspired directly by the patients' stories.

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Creative student showcases honored the lived experiences of twenty dementia patients at J…: Creative student showcases honored the lived experiences of twenty dementia patients at Jurong Community Hospital.
Sensory elements including music, smells, sounds, and familiar objects helped bring the p…: Sensory elements including music, smells, sounds, and familiar objects helped bring the patients' personal memories to life.
The collaborative festival concluded with an original musical tribute inspired directly b…: The collaborative festival concluded with an original musical tribute inspired directly by the patients' stories.

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