Timeslips: Creative Storytelling
Principal Investigator: Anne Basting, Ph.D.
TimeSlips, a creative storytelling project funded in part by Picker Institute’s Long-Term Care Program, went live at www.timeslips.org on Friday, Sept. 24.
Developed in 1998 by Anne Basting, Ph.D., director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center on Age & Community, TimeSlips is a creative engagement tool designed to be used with people with dementia and their caregivers. By countering the loss of memory with the use of imagination, the project inspires people with dementia to sharpen and share the gifts of their imagination and helps others see hope for rekindling the human connection among people struggling with dementia.
TimeSlips is aimed at bringing joy in imagination to people wherever they live and whatever their cognitive ability: people living isolated at home, families living far apart and people living/working in group facilities.
Find out more about this innovative method of communicating with and among people with dementia, play with the TimeSlips software and post stories of your own at www.timeslips.org.
Click here to view the Timeslips segment featured on the TODAY show.
Click here to read stories produced under the Timeslips initiative.