Anne Basting
 
 
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"Creative care is…an invitation to shape the world together. For people denied the tools for world-shaping, this invitation can be a profound and life-changing act of healing.”

 

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Now AVAILABLE

The Creative Care Imagination Kit
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A tested way to foster imaginative and story-based activities among diverse groups and families, especially caretakers of loved ones and those suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's, from pioneering researcher Anne Basting, the author of Creative Care and a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient.

Based on Basting's twenty-five years of research, this "imagination kit" makes it easy for families, friends, and caregivers to make meaningful connections with elders and others dealing with physical, cognitive, or emotional challenges, including memory loss.

Available on Bookshop; Books-A-Million; Amazon; Barnes & Noble; Indiebound.

Invite someone into wonderment...where imagination sparks hope and connection.
— Anne Basting

Now available in PAPERBACK

Creative Care: A Revolutionary Approach to Dementia and Elder Care
available from Harper One.

Bookshop.org; Amazon; Barnes & Noble; Indiebound; Books-A-Million 

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This book chronicles the story of how I came to find the power of creative care; the elements of it and how they can be infused into care relationships; and how creative care practices can help transform our care systems themselves.

I hope you find these stories both soothing and inspiring. Let your imagination soar…

— Anne

 

A quiet moment resting in a winged wheelchair (design by Jeff Becker), after the play Wendy's Neverland, in Morgantown Care and Rehab Center in Morgantown, KY.

Photo by Penn Chan (pennchan.com).