This 18 month project is currently running at various cultural venues including National Glass Centre.

Creative Age project will help transform access to arts for those living with dementia.

An inclusive project, Creative Age offers friendly and creative sessions for older people with dementia, long-term health conditions and their carers.

Figures show there are more than 30,000 people living in the North East living with dementia with this number set to rise over 40,000 by 2021. 

There is growing understanding that creativity is intact long after other cognitive functions decline.

Creative Age sessions are inclusive, friendly and focus instead more on people's imagination and ideas.  They are about what the individual can do now, in a particular moment.  

Creative Age sessions are held at National Glass Centre Thursdays 2-4pm.