This report has been written as part of Dementia Connect funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Dementia Connect builds on the learning of the Creative Economy Knowledge Exchange Hubs (2012-2016) and aims to “grow a dementia innovation network” based in the North West of England. The report responds and builds on Dementia Connect’s belief that: “in making sense of complex artistic interventions and their context-dependent effects, an understanding of different aesthetic, social, cultural, and economic impacts may be relevant.”

These six case studies were chosen with the aim of examining how different regional and national bodies – through different forms of partnership involving health and cultural organisations alike – are together attempting to meet the particular challenges posed for people in the crucial post-diagnostic period.