Providing Images to Help People Living with Dementia
20 Medi 2017
,A wonderful new book has been created by Picture to Share. This dementia-friendly book is the first of this type that has been produced bilingually in both Welsh and English.
Pictures to Share teamed up with us, The National Library of Wales, Alzheimers Society and the Welsh Poet Laureate to produce Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, a beautifully illustrated book to help carers communicate with people living with dementia. Pictures to Share have produced many books on this theme but this is the first to focus upon the Welsh language, in order to help people living with dementia whose first language is Welsh.
This was an opportunity to highlight the importance of the work we do to help people living with dementia as well as highlight our collections and showcase our commercial Picture Library. The images used in the book, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, portray many things which people in Wales can relate to, prompting discussion.
Dementia is a subject which many of our staff are passionate about, with many of the staff undertaking training to become a Dementia Friend in order to help enhance the visitor experience of people living with dementia.
After communicating with the editor Michelle Forster, we supplied the images and license to use them in order to comply with copyrights laws. We have to issue a license to anyone who wishes to use our images. Pictures to Share invited us to Cardiff Library for their book launch in November 2016 to see the completed book, which was attended by staff from our Image Licensing, Photography and Translation departments. We were all very impressed with the end product which is now available at our shop at National Museum Cardiff and our on-line shop.
If you would like to use our images within a publication, please contact us at Image Licensing.
You can also purchase images for your home from our on-line shop.
Thank you to Cardiff Council for permission to use images from the book launch.