Talks & Workshops on the Creative Arts Improving Brain Health 

Creative Brainwaves is a three-part series of talks and workshops exploring how engaging in creative arts can improve your brain health.This series is curated and facilitated by Mike Hanrahan, Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), Trinity College Dublin.

These talks, curated and facilitated by Mike Hanrahan, Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) will feature neuroscientists, psychologists, researchers, people with dementia and their carers, people with acquired brain injury, brain health activists and creative artists who work to improve brain health.  

Join us to learn how art, singing, music, dance, poetry and writing can stimulate your senses and improve cognition. There is always a special welcome for for people interested in brain health, people living with dementia, acquired brain injury and their caregivers at each session. 

Local support organisations including Acquired Brain Injury Ireland, Living Well with Dementia & Social Prescribing for Health & Wellbeing DLR will also be present at these sessions.  

Talks are FREE, but booking is essential via dlr Libraries Eventbrite 

Bookings via dlr Libraries Eventbrite / | libraryculture@dlrcoco.ie | 01 280 1147 

All events take place in the Studio Theatre, Level 1,  dlr LexIcon, Moran Park, Dún Laoghaire, A96 H283  

Tea and coffee will be provided

Tuesday 21st May, 18:30 – 20:30  

The Art of Living – Younger Onset Dementia 

Dr Kevin Quaid 

Limerick native Kevin Quaid was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia in 2017 aged 53, after being diagnosed firstly with Parkinsons. He is the author of two books ‘Lewy Body Dementia, Survival and Me’ and ‘I am Kevin! not Lewy’. He is a member of the Irish Dementia Working Group as well as Vice Chair of the European Working Group of People with Dementia and co-founder of Lewy Body Ireland. 

Helena Quaid 

Helena Quaid is the wife and spousal carer for Kevin and co-founder of Lewy Body Ireland. She is chair of the Dementia Carers Campaign Network (DCCN) and is a member of the Dementia Research Advisory Team (PPI) supported by the Alzheimer Society of Ireland.  

Helen Rochford-Brennan 

Sligo native, Helen Rochford-Brennan is a Global Dementia Ambassador, Vice Chair of the Irish Dementia Working Group, former Chairperson of the European Working Group of People with Dementia and its nominee to the Board of Alzheimer Europe.  

Carmel Geoghegan  

Carmel Geoghegan is the founder of Dementia Ireland Empowering Communities and is an advocate and supporter of campaigns that keep the spotlight on Dementia and End of Life Care as a national health priority. Carmel’s advocacy work stems from becoming primary carer for her late Mum Angela, who received a diagnosis for vascular dementia in January 2011. 

Eleanor Edmond 

Eleanor is a freelance consultant delivering training and policy advice in the areas of advocacy, human rights and capacity and is a qualified (non-practising) solicitor. She worked for the Alzheimer Society of Ireland developing and managing the first dementia-specific personal advocacy service in Ireland and is a member of the Alzheimer Society’s Expert Advisory Panel and the Research Ethics Committee of Acquired Brain Injury Ireland.