Alzheimer's Poetry Project Minnesota

Diane Jarvenpa has combined poetry, memoir and music in assisted living residences as well as in memory care units, Long Term and Adult Day programs for the past twenty years. She is a teaching artist with the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project MN. She has also provided intergenerational teaching experiences that have included high school students and pre-school children with assisted living residents, and nursing students and elders.
 
She is the author of six books of poetry, The Way She Told her Story, The Tender Wild Things, Divining the Landscape , swift, bright, drift, Ancient Wonders, The Modern World  and Shy Lands. She has received The Midwest Independent Publishers Association Award and an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. As a singer-songwriter she performs under the name Diane Jarvi. She was the recipient of the 50 over 50 Minnesotans award from Pollen Midwest and AARPMN for intergenerational teaching of poetry and music. She loves meeting new people who also like to share and explore the world of music and words.

www.dianejarvi.com

• Lyngblomsten: Writing class w/assisted living, intergenerational class with assisted living and nursing students, senior companion/memory care programs on site and in their outlying communities, Creative Space stories and music for memory loss living at home and Long Term.
• Ebenezer Martin Luther Care Center–Assisted living, long term, adult day, memory care
• Ebenezer-Ridges Burnsville–Assisted-living, adult day/pre-school
• Harbor Crossing- White Bear- memory care
• Hmong DayElders in Mpls – adult day
• The Pillars at Shoreview– memory care
• Orchards of Minnetonka- assisted living mixed with memory care
• Towerlight- St Louis Park– Intergenerational sessions Pre-schoolers w/ memory care
• Norris Square Cottage Grove– memory care
• Riley Crossing- Chanhassen– Intergenerational sessions Pre-schoolers w/ memory care
• Shorewood Landing- -memory care
• Northern Lakes Senior Living- memory care