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critically revised further draughts. All authors read and approved

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FUNDING

This study was supported by Wellcome Trust grant #

200783/Z/16/Z to SC (P-I).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank the many people with a dementia,

their family members and care staff for their participation in

one or more of the projects described in this article, and for

helping to inform how we as researchers and artists are coming

to understand creativity in the dementias. Special thanks to

Tracy Shorthouse and Kerrie Marshall for answers to our many

questions. We would also like to acknowledge the support of:

AgeUK Camden, Alzheimer's Society, BBC, Jewish Care, Rare

Dementia Support Groups, Resonate Arts, Royal Society for

Public Health, Wallace Collection, Wellcome Collection, and

Wigmore Hall.

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