Museums In The UK Help Stop Some Of The Agonies Of Dementia

The Liverpool Museums have created about 40 suitcases full of mementos that help people with declining memory and function regain some understanding of the world around them. “Themes include transportation, the natural world and ethnicity; for example, Irish and Afro-Caribbean people are among the groups represented. One suitcase contains items like fliers from early Gay Pride marches and club nights; photos of venues in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s; and a pair of brown suede Hush Puppies, which some gay men wore to spot each other at a time when homosexuality still had not been decriminalized in Britain.”