ScrippsAVID: Connecting Generations Through Art

Catalog description

ScrippsAVID - Arts-based, Virtual, Intergenerational, Dementia-friendly is a video-chat platform that connects older adults, including those living with dementia and their care partners, with Miami University students to build intergenerational relationships through sharing art, music, poetry, and stories. The program matches users from different generations based on mutual availability and primary language, then offers a selection of 70+ creative prompts for pairs to choose from while they engage socially. No art background is required. In these weekly interactions, students have the opportunity express their creativity and develop their communication skills by connecting with older people outside their usual circles of family and friends.