TimeSlips, a creative story telling program for those with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia, has relaunched its website.

The company’s Creativity Center offers more than 300 free resources and activities to help engage residents with cognitive impairments.

“At TimeSlips, we believe that even in our latest and most frail moments, we are capable of creating beauty and meaning,” says Anne Basting, Ph.D., the founder and president of TimeSlips, a professor of theater at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a MacArthur Fellow. “By making so many new resources widely available, we hope to spark a creative revolution in care, offering people a joyful opportunity for connection, even in the midst of the stress and pain that are often part of living with dementia.”

New resources in the TimeSlips.org Creativity Center include:  

  • Beautiful Questions, such as, “What is the most beautiful sound in the world?” or “What is something you could teach someone?”
  • Gentle Conversation prompts that inspire simple sensory responses.
  • The classic TimeSlips prompt Imagine a Story, using a whimsical, comic or vintage photograph and open-ended questions to inspire elders and their companions or caregivers to make up an original (and often freewheeling) story together.

TimeSlips recently worked with Signature HealthCARE on a set of plays.