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Becoming Friends of Time: Advanced Dementia and the Significance of the Present Moment

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John Swinton - Becoming Friends of Time: Advanced Dementia and the Significance of the Present Moment.

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Becoming Friends of Time: Advanced Dementia and the

Significance of the Present Moment

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Brambles Bear Fruit

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Living before cognition

The more I think the more

confused I get!

Who am I?

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Creativity

The use of the imagination to create something

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But precisely where does imagination come

from?

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Memoryand

community

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Re-membering one another: May's Story

“Forgetting Whose we are”

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To be a person is to be

imagined well

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I am because we are; when we are together, I can be...

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Music and

memory

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Re-membering with our bodies

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Re-imagining time, Contemplation and the art of Noticing

small things

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Where does the time go?

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The sacrament of the present

moment

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From Inclusion to Belonging

From Inclusion to Belonging

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May’s story

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To Belong You Need To Be Missed

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I Belong!

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We Belong

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To be included is not enough. We need to belong