“Also A Mirror” – winner of 3 out of 3 awards

The following blurb is from the announcement of the 2012 ACS SA & NT Excellence Awards and might be of interest to you. It was from the news item posted on ECH’s website news page. “The Media Award “recognises an individual or organisation whose efforts result in the positive portrayal of older people, and/or aged…

Radio National play: “Also A Mirror”

Following on from my blog yesterday, I have the details of the radio play about dementia, and as it is such a wonderful production, it deserves another plug! Over the last 18 months, ECH has worked very closely with Adelaide based youth theatre company, Urban Myth, firstly to produce a stage play, Also a Mirror,…

Dementia and storytelling

Two people in Adelaide met some time ago and had this wild idea of inspiring young people to become involved in the world of dementia and memory loss through drama. One is the Artistic Director or Urban Myth Drama Group, the other works for the ECH Residential Care group in SA. Last year, after almost…