Arts therapies, progressive illness, dementia: the difficulty of being / Diane Waller -- In the waiting room of the Grim Reaper / Ken Evans -- The living death: dance movement therapy with Parkinson's patients / Jill Bunce -- Art therapy in the treatment of chronic invalidating conditions: from Parkinson's disease to Alzheimer's / Attilia Cossio -- Case studies in Huntington's disease: music therapy assessment and treatment in the early to advanced stages / Wendy L. Magee -- Art therapy with older adults clinically diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease and dementia / John Tyler -- Real world or fantasy? / Ken Evans -- Living with dementia: inteview with Neil McArthur / Diane Waller -- A narrowed sense of space: an art therapy group with young Alzheimer's sufferers / Barry Falk -- Evaluating the use of art therapy for older people with dementia: a control group study / Diane Waller. Case vignette: Finlay McInally -- Changing the context of care: opening up the system; interview with Kamal Beeharee / Diane Waller -- Art as a therapy for Parkinson's / Nancy Tingey -- Circles of the mind: the use of therapeutic circle dance with older people with dementia / Dorothy Jerrome -- Nameless dread: a carer's story / Diane Waller.
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In the last few years arts therapies have been used in a growing range of applications with new groups of patients. This is a guide to the use of arts therapies in the treatment of patients with diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.