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Reflections: A Program for People with Dementia and their Care Partners

Interested in experiencing a fun, free outing accessible to someone with dementia?

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Photo by J Caldwell

Visitors can join our Reflections Program in three ways.

Public tours at 2 PM on the second Tuesday of every month (we also partner with Duke Family Support, offering tours for those groups at 10:30 AM and 2 PM on the fourth Tuesday of every month). All tours are 90 minutes, and end with an interactive art or music activity.

Virtual tours once a month, on the second Friday at 2 PM. These are 60-minute virtual versions of our monthly tour on the Zoom platform.

For facilities and groups, we offer 60-minute tours by appointment.

All offerings are FREE! Contact us at reflections.duke.edu to schedule a tour and/or join our email list.

Photo by Cornell Watson

Enjoy artwork from the Nasher’s collection through fun conversations, experiences that engage all the senses through hands-on activities, music, movement, and art-making.

Our tours are wheelchair- and walker-accessible, and we advise drop-off at the Anderson entrance; for specific accessibility questions or concerns, please contact us, and we will make every effort to make you feel welcome at the museum.

Launched in 2014 based on the Meet Me at the MoMa model, the Reflections Program offers accessible art tours designed with individuals with memory loss in mind. Now a leader in accessible arts interventions for people with dementia, we collaborate with our academic community at Duke and the world.

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Repairing Our View of Dementia

It is a rewarding experience each time I lead a virtual art gallery tour for adults with dementia. Though we are over 1000 miles apart physically and multiple decades apart in age, we connect over artwork through the Refle...

file download from The Journal of the American Medical Association | Published November 30, 2022

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How one NC museum is using art and music to unlock memories in people with dementia

The visitors sit in folding chairs in front of a huge, ornately framed portrait of a man holding a gold staff against a blue and floral background.

view article on The News &. Observer | Published January 23, 2020

Support

The Nasher Museum Alzheimer’s Program is made possible by Stefanie and Doug Kahn in honor of their fathers, Donald Schneider and Mike Kahn; Ronald and Batsheva Ostrow; and the Carlyle Adams Foundation.

For information about supporting the Reflections Program, please contact Stephanie Wheatley, Director of Development, at stephanie.wheatley@duke.edu.

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