For Family
Family Member Have A Life-Limiting Illness? Here’s How You Can Help
If you are a family member of a person living with a life-limiting or terminal illness then you are in the right place! Here you will find therapeutic art products that can improve their health and quality of life.
A life-limiting or terminal illness means your loved one has one or more life-threatening diagnoses such as Alzheimer's Disease, dementia or another neurological disease like Parkinson's Disease, advanced organ disease of the heart, brain, or lung, cancer, or an advanced nervous system disorder like multiple sclerosis.
Art Methods And Materials For Family
Resilia designs creative therapies activities and experiences that include museum visits, drumming, legacy telling, visual art, and music. We work with multiple artists and other creative therapies organizations to provide you with effective alternative medicine and non-pharmacological interventions that involve several different treatment modalities and approaches.
Your family member doesn’t need to be an artist to engage in creative therapies and you don’t need to be an artist to facilitate the creative therapies approaches and techniques of Resilia. There are many different creative activities and experiences to choose from. If your family member doesn’t like painting, try music. If they don’t like creative expression, try our arts-based brain exercise course. Rest assured, you will find something you like.
Legacy Chronicles
Explore and record the ordinary and extraordinary of your life while exercising your brain. Define your legacy through fifty chronicles of memory-sparking activities, exploratory questions, guided responses, and your self-portrait. Create a tangible piece of beauty transformed from the humility and greatness of your life story. Start with the kit that includes the DIY display album, and upgrade with a 20-minute autobiography video so you can share it with others so they can treasure you forever.
Masterpiece Art Cards
Exercise your brain by exploring masterpiece paintings and sculptures from museums around the world. Do it on your own or with a friend or family member. Determine if it’s art or not art. Learn interesting facts and art mysteries. Be guided through creative questions of reflection and reasoning that activate the five brain abilities: Attention, Memory, Executive Functioning (planning, sequencing, problem-solving), Language, and Visual Perception.
Products And Services For Family
Legacy Chronicle Album
The Legacy Chronicles Album helps capture personal stories and turn them into a tangible, personalized album to share for generations. The kit comes with all the tools, instructions, and helpful prompts needed to create and document a person’s life and legacy. The Legacy Chronicle Album is a product designed to assist you in exploring the ordinary and extraordinary of life. Everyone Has a Legacy. Create something beautiful from the humility and greatness of a person’s life story.
Have Questions? We’re Here To Answer
What kind of therapy does Resilia do?
Resilia provides products, activities, consults and trainings of therapeutic arts and creative expression interventions that improve the health and well-being of people living with life-limiting illnesses. Licensed art therapists and social gerontologists are the clinicians that designed and tested all the products of Resilia. It is not required for users to be artists or clinicians.
What is Creative Therapies?
Creative Therapies is a health discipline that incorporates various mediums of visual, performing, and literary art to intervene, elevate, and/or support the healing of a person's physical, psychological, emotional, and cognitive impairments. Creative Therapies is frequently a compliment to talk therapy and originates in the psychotherapy health realms. Creative Therapies has evolved and divided to define specific objectives, techniques and results in specific mediums such as Creative Expression Therapy, Visual Art Therapy, Dance Therapy, and Music Therapy.
How can art improve the quality of life of someone living with cancer?
Therapeutic arts interventions offer people living with a life-limiting cancer a relaxing escape against the backdrop of treatment anxiety and fear for the future. A person does not have to be an artist, or even like art to benefit. The only requirement is an open mind. Resilia focuses on artmaking and legacy telling interventions for people living with cancer.
What products and services does Resilia have for family members and how does it help them?
Resilia designs, sells, and facilitates products that assist family members in improving the health and well-being of another family member who is living with a life-limiting illnesses like Alzheimer's Disease, dementia, an organ disease, or cancer. The products for families mean that a single family member or group of family members can follow the directions and assist their person in completing the directed creative tasks. The products and services of Resilia will help the family member(s) explore concepts, express emotions, alleviate pain, communicate ideas and stories, and decrease depression and anxiety.
