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This illustration shows only the top of an information sheet produced by Adele Pacini, for service users and carers of people with dementia. At the top of the image the viewer sees a person’s hands, opened up to the viewer in a welcoming way, and placed between their hands is a yellow flower. To the right of the hands is a quote from a mindfulness practitioner. The quote says: ‘Why do we practice mindfulness? So that we can enjoy our old age’ The practitioner is said to be ‘Shunryu Suzuki Roshi’. Below the photograph the information sheet is titled ‘Mindfulness Therapy’. Below the title the viewer sees two columns of text. The title of the left-hand column is titled ’What is mindfulness?’ and the right-hand column is titled ‘What does the course involve?’ Below each of these titles is the beginning of the text that Adele created. The text on the left-hand column says: ‘The definition of mindfulness is paying attention to the present moment without judgment. The mindfulness for dementia course consists of a number of exercises that can be learned by listening’. It is implied that the column continues but this is unseen by the viewer of the image. The right-hand column text says: ‘As well as attending the classes, we will ask people to practise skills at home for 20 minutes each day.’ Following this text there is a bullet-pointed list beginning: ‘We will help you to: use helpful coping skills’, a lengthier bullet-pointed list is implied but is unseen by the viewer