Pam Schweitzer
Role within the OHS: Regional Network Representative for London
Current Occupation: Director of European Reminiscence Network, Freelance trainer and consultant on reminiscence
Current Projects:
"Sites and Signs of Remembrance", a project of the European Reminiscence Network with partners in Poland and Germany. "Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today", a project across 8 centres in the UK running reminiscence with groups of people with dementia and their family carers, which is the subject of a randomised control trial funded by the Department of Health (Health Technology Assessment scheme).Previous Projects:
Many verbatim theatre projects.Expertise:
30 publications of edited reminiscences & photos on key themes in social history of 20th century.
Many reminiscence installations and exhibitions.
Handbooks on reminiscence work with ethnic minorities, on iter-generational reminiscence projects and on reminiscence with people with dementia.
Recent publications:
"Reminiscence Theatre: making theatre from memories" published 2007, Jessica Kingsley Publications
And "Making Memories Matter", a bi-lingual production featuring Memory Boxes from 7 European countries. (See: www.europeanreminiscencenetwork.org.
Founder of Age Exchange Theatre Trust and Reminiscence Centre
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Email address: schweitzer@beeb.net