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    • Improving Accessibility with Adapted Art Tools

    | Art Ideas

    Through its person-centered approach, Opening Minds through Art (OMA) plays to the strengths of its artists, who have unique needs as People with Dementia (PWD). In addition to changes in cognitive...
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    Opening Minds through Art is hiring!!

    Opening Minds through Art is hiring!!

    | News and Updates

    Associate Director of Opening Minds through Art (OMA) Scripps Gerontology Center  The Scripps Gerontology Center specializes in research, education, and service that...
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    Leader in Aging-Carol Silver Elliott

    | Featured Sites

    Long time OMA advocate and 2020 LeadingAge Elect Chair of the Board, Carol Silver-Elliott has a strong vision to address ageism. We spoke with her recently to discuss her newly appointed role, her...
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    Five things you should know about art, dementia, and...

    | News and Updates

    Watch five brief video clips of Q&A with OMA’s founder, Like Lokon, to find out five things that you should know about OMA and the latest developments in the OMA in medical school...
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    Canadian HS Student received award for OMA work

    | News and Updates

    Art is opening minds and bringing generations together in Kitchener, Canada, thanks to the dedication and passion of students, teachers and facilitators. The efforts of Lillian Hyatt, a Grade 9...
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    The Arts Dispel Medical Students’ Qualms About Dementia

    | News and Updates

    OMA was extensively quoted in an article on “The Arts Dispel Medical Students’ Qualms about Dementia” by Rebecca Voelker, in the April 2019 issue of JAMA (the Journal of the...
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