SUMMARY FOR ARTICLE

A pilot study on the impact of a pottery workshop on the well-being of people with dementia.. This study seeks to assess the impact of a pottery workshop as a creative arts programme and discover the extent to which people with dementia taking part in an artistic and creative activity engage with it, experience a feeling of well-being, and improve their mood state. however seven of the participants those with the greater cognitive impairment and gds needed excessive help to complete the questionnaire so the quality of the data obtained must be treated with caution and were therefore excluded from the analysis resulting in a total of subjects with enough confidence in its scores. in most cases self-esteem has been measured qualitatively kinney & rentz ; rentz or has been a recurring topic in focus groups of participants in art sessions and his caregivers flattet al. this assumption is supported by the high scores recorded in the domain of well-being normalcy in the greater cincinnati chapter well-being observation tool over the course of the sessions. likewise when they were returned the pieces they had made in the previous session they were impressed by the outcome and used numerous manifestations and verbalisations that indicated positive self-esteem and a sense of pride at having been able to complete the pieces successfully as also captured by the greater cincinnati chapter well-being observation tool.