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Abstract Background Around the world, there will be one new case of dementia every 3 seconds 152 million people are worldwide living with dementia in 2050, by then 2 billion people will be over 60 years of age There are negative attitudes towards elderly people and ageism is extremely common Young people often know somebody in their families with dementia and most of the time do not know how to handle it This project designs the first arts-based schooling strategy for empathy for people with dementia, creates a dementia friendly generation, age-friendly environments, supports young people to understand dementia Objective of the project is to develop artistic strategies to strengthen empathic abilities with arts-based methods creative workshops involved participants to experience resources;awareness growth on dementia
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