Dementia Resource
Hidden: Ruby & Dennis
Made By Mortals want to help our community support people to live positively with dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairments (MCI).
On this page you can download all additional audio and pdf resources from our project in partnership with Together Dementia Support. These resources have been co-produced with people living with dementia and their carers and are for people who wish to make their service, group, organisation or venue more dementia friendly. They supplement the immersive audio experience, ‘Hidden – Ruby & Dennis,’ which can also be listened to below.
Through the resources, you will have a greater understanding of what is happening to Ruby & Dennis (the two main characters in the audio) and the challenges they face. The resources also contain useful links to further your understanding of dementia and examples of best practice from other organisations, groups, services and venues. The ‘Training Workshop Guide’ is for people who would like to use the resources to train larger teams of people.
‘Hidden’ is a series of immersive audio experiences that challenges you to take a walk in someone else’s shoes. This episode tells the love story of two characters, Ruby and Dennis, who are husband and wife. Ruby lives with dementia and Dennis cares for her. The story explores the challenges they face in staying active, doing some of the things they used to love, and enjoying their lives separately and together.
It has been created by people with lived experience of dementia or caring for people with dementia or Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), in collaboration with professional musicians, writers and health and social care partners. You will hear the voices of real people who are living with dementia. All the men’s voices play the character Dennis, all the women’s voices play Ruby. Made By Mortals have used this episode as a catalyst for discussion in workshops with other people living with dementia or MCI, which has provided further insight into situations people living with dementia face. These have been edited into ‘additional audio’ packages and can be listened to below.
“The participatory approach to the piece makes the content feel all the more powerful as it is clear that the content is truly felt and understood by the performers.”
Dr Sarah Campbell, Manchester Metropolitan University
Audio Resources:
01. Ruby & Dennis Episode
This episode tells the love story of two characters, Ruby and Dennis, who are husband and wife. Ruby lives with dementia and Dennis cares for her. The story explores the challenges they face in staying active, doing some of the things they used to love, and enjoying their lives separately and together.
It has been created by people with lived experience of dementia or caring for people with dementia or Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), in collaboration with professional musicians, writers and health and social care partners. You will hear the voices of real people who are living with dementia. All the men’s voices play the character Dennis, all the women’s voices play Ruby.
This episode has been used to create a learning resource and training programme for people who wish to make their service, group, organisation or venue more dementia friendly. You can find out more and download these resources here.
Listen here
https://soundcloud.com/user-814694698-171463065/hidden-ruby-dennis/s-CV8OIMOOBiq?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
02. Additional Audio 1
This is the first of three additional audio pieces to be used alongside the ‘Don’t Stop Me Now – Training Workshop Guide’ (see link below). It contains the voices of people with lived experience of dementia or mild cogntive impairments.
Having listened to the immersive audio episode, ‘Hidden: Ruby & Dennis’ this additional audio piece captures the responses of people living with dementia when asked, ‘what does a good life look like for Ruby & Dennis at your service, venue or organisation?’
Created as part of Made By Mortals’ Hidden series, featuring immersive audio experiences inviting the listener to take a walk in another person’s shoes, the aim of this project is for services, organisations, groups and venues to consider what they can do to become more dementia friendly.
We also hope that people will be able to use this training to
understand what it’s like to walk in the shoes of two characters, Ruby & Dennis, and reach out to more people living with a dementia diagnosis.
Listen here
03. Additional Audio 2
This is the second of three additional audio pieces to be used alongside the ‘Don’t Stop Me Now – Training Workshop Guide’ (see link below). It contains the voices of people with lived experience of dementia or mild cogntive impairments.
Having listened to the immersive audio episode, ‘Hidden: Ruby & Dennis’ this additional audio piece captures the responses of people living with dementia when asked, ‘what are the barriers for Ruby & Dennis?’
Created as part of Made By Mortals’ Hidden series, featuring immersive audio experiences inviting the listener to take a walk in another person’s shoes, the aim of this project is for services, organisations, groups and venues to consider what they can do to become more dementia friendly.
We also hope that people will be able to use this training to
understand what it’s like to walk in the shoes of two characters, Ruby & Dennis, and reach out to more people living with a dementia diagnosis.
Listen here
04. Additional Audio 3
This is the third of three additional audio pieces to be used alongside the ‘Don’t Stop Me Now – Training Workshop Guide’ (see link below). It contains the voices of people with lived experience of dementia or mild cogntive impairments.
Having listened to the immersive audio episode, ‘Hidden: Ruby & Dennis’ this additional audio piece captures the responses of people living with dementia when asked, ‘who or what can help Ruby & Dennis overcome those barriers (from additional audio 2)?’
Created as part of Made By Mortals’ Hidden series, featuring immersive audio experiences inviting the listener to take a walk in another person’s shoes, the aim of this project is for services, organisations, groups and venues to consider what they can do to become more dementia friendly.
We also hope that people will be able to use this training to
understand what it’s like to walk in the shoes of two characters, Ruby & Dennis, and reach out to more people living with a dementia diagnosis.
Listen here
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