<i>Piece of Mind:</i> knowledge translation performances for public engagement on Parkinson's disease and dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The subjective experience of illness is often overshadowed by the disease-and-cure focus of health research, contributing to the stigmatization of conditions such as Parkinson's disease and dementia. This is exacerbated by the fact that traditional means of knowledge dissemination are inaccessible to non-academic audiences, hampering meaningful dialogue with and research uptake by the broader community.

Methods

Our arts-based knowledge translation project, Piece of Mind, brought together neuroscientists, people with Parkinson's disease or dementia, care partners and artists (musicians, dancers, circus acrobats) to co-create 2 multi-media performances based on scientific research and lived experience. We investigated whether the resulting interdisciplinary

SUBMITTER: Kuhlmann N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11627042 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature