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Cathy Correa Lopera, M.Mus.
Music and Movement Educator
We must work both with persons with dementia and the whole community around them, creating awareness about brain health and opening opportunities to improve their quality of life. Music, art and movement can be our way.
Current Work
As a music educator and Orff-Schulwerk specialist, Cathy works with children, young and adults, developing Music and Movement programs that help them to get close to the musical experience. As a children illustrator, she believes in the power that image and words have to tell a story.
Personal Hero
My grandmother and my family
Words of Strength
Working together, Sing, Move, Create
Vision
Cathy believes we must work not only with patients but with the whole community around them, creating consciousness about mental health and opening opportunities for people with dementia to rise their quality of life. Music, art, movement can be our way.
Strategy
Cathy has worked with patients and carers to develop music and movement activities, based on Orff-Schulwerk principles, as well as with teenagers at risk of drug abuse. She believes musical and art intervention at early age is key for wellbeing.
Impact
Cathy hopes to create a network of people from different backgrounds who also believe in the power that arts and science together have to fight for equity in society. She wants to offer a space for enjoyment and creation through music and movement.
Motivation
The department of Antioquia (Colombia) has the largest population of individuals with early-onset familiar Alzheimer's disease. Working through music and movement with patients and their families is an opportunity to bring joy and hope to their life.
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