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Alum discusses
climate change
Tim Arvan
examines
negotiations on and
off campus
On Sunday night, Citizens’
Climate Lobby Ann Arbor and
Washtenaw
Climate
Reality
hosted an event titled “Climate
Change Negotiation and Policy
at Home and Abroad” with
University of Michigan alum
Tim Arvan at the Ann Arbor
District
Library’s
Westgate
branch.
Arvan
attended
the
United Nations COP24 Climate
Change Convention in Katowice,
Poland as a Climate Blue student
delegate.
He started the talk by recalling
his time in Katowice. He said that
while he did not take part in any
of the negotiations, his presence
showed the United Nations’
commitment
to
exhibiting
transparency
in
its
climate
negotiations. Additionally, he
doscussed the challenges the
United
Nations’
consensus
requirement in decision-making
poses when navigating climate
change negotiations and creating
a plan that countries will follow.
“There’s no way that the UN
has to force a country to do a
particular thing,” Arvan said.
“That means that every single
nation has to be on board with
every single significant step that
we take to solve this problem.
And right off the bat, that just
makes it impossible to take more
than incremental steps over
twenty four years.”
Arvan
also
discussed
transitions as well as common but
differentiated
responsibilities,
and how he saw examples of
people worried about the effects
of the United Nations’ missions
on their income.
Art & Design
students work
with people
with Alzheimer’s
The
walls
of
Michigan
Alzheimer’s Disease Center, a
research hub and medical center
for those facing memory loss, are
dotted with bright watercolor
paintings — “works of art,” as
Hank Paulson, the director of the
center and University professor
of neurology, calls them. These
paintings
were
created
by
patients in the center as part of a
therapeutic program led by Anne
Mondro, an associate professor
at the School of Art & Design,
and the students of her Memory,
Aging and Expressive Arts class.
“When
those
people
with
dementia
made
those
works
of art, there was a feeling of
accomplishment
that
was
satisfying to them that basically
allowed them to be socially
interacting
with
the
world
around them to have a positive
impact themselves,” Paulson said.
“And I think that is therapeutic.”
For the past 15 years, Mondro’s
work has provided emotional
support and brain stimulation
for those suffering from memory
loss in a state where Alzheimer’s
Disease, the most prevalent form
of dementia, is the sixth leading
cause of death in the nation. As
the Baby Boomer generation
continues to age, the number
of patients with Alzheimer’s 65
and older is expected to grow
22 percent by 2025 and raise
Medicaid costs by nearly 25
percent, according to scientists.
Alzheimer’s and other types of
dementia progress slowly— the
average person lives between four
and eight years after receiving
the diagnosis — so memory loss
centers often focus on raising a
patient’s quality of life through
programs
like
Mondro’s
art
therapy. Kathi Tobey, a memory
loss
specialist
at
Michigan
Medicine’s Silver Club Programs,
said art offers those living with
dementia an outlet for creativity
in ways words often cannot.
“(Creative art) doesn’t have
boundaries,” Tobey said. “As
memory loss increases, (people
who are diagnosed) can still can
be creative, they just are more
creative in an abstract way. So a
lot of the art that gets produced
for our folks with moderate
memory loss, is more abstract ... It
doesn’t have to be done a certain
way, so it offers folks this avenue
that is open-ended.”
Mondro’s work focuses mainly
on the intersection of art, illness
and disease. In 2014, Mondro
began offering a course to Arts &
Design students — an outgrowth
of
her
previous
community
engagement course, Retaining
Identity: the role of creativity in
health care — created in 2006.
Class uses art to
better livelihood
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