Review By a number of measures, this is an important and wide-ranging book. Ostensibly about dementia and the contribution that arts therapists can make to relieving the nameless dread that lies behind dementias implacable tread, a cursory reading will quickly reveal that topics broached extend far beyond these ostensible limits. - From the foreword by Robin Higgins, former lecturer at Goldsmiths College and the Laban Centre for Dance and Movement, London Product Description Arts Therapies and Progressive Illness is a guide to the use of arts therapies in the treatment of patients with diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. In the last few years arts therapies have been used in an increasingly wide range of applications with new groups of patients, such as patients in palliative care, or with learning disabilities - Diane Waller has been a driving force behind this expansion. Together with an impressive array of contributors, Waller covers treatments such as art therapy, dance movement therapy and music therapy. This broadly focused, multi-disciplinary book will be of great interest to arts therapists, arts therapy educators, medical, social work and other staff who are concerned with developing care plans for patients and their relatives.