Culture Box: Using multi-sensory arts and creative activities to decrease social isolation and loneliness in people with dementia during COVID-19

Culture Box was an 18-month research project working with care homes and people with dementia to address social isolation and loneliness during the Covid-19 pandemic. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the project ran for 18 months using a remote and digital Participatory Action Research framework to include the preferences and needs of people with dementia throughout. It resulted in Culture Box’s expansive archive of materials to support activity coordinators and facilitators with high quality arts-based and creative interventions. These interventions used physical and virtual resources during the pandemic, but the virtual resources in particular remain highly relevant now that the pandemic has passed. All the archived materials can be found on the project website