Full Description
Understanding how creative interventions can help develop social connectivity and resilience for older people is vital in developing a holistic cross-sector approach towards ageing well.
Academics with a wide range of expertise critically reflect on how the built environment, community living, cultural participation, lifelong learning, and artist-led interventions encourage older people to thrive and overcome both challenging life events and the everyday changes associated with ageing.
The book uses a range of approaches, including participatory research methods, to bring the voices of older people themselves to the foreground. It looks at how taking part in creative interventions develops different types of social relationships and fosters resilience.
Contents
Introduction ‾ Anna Goulding;
Setting the field: older people's conceptualisation of resilience and its relationship to cultural engagement ‾ Anna Goulding
Ages and Stages: creative participatory research with older people ‾ Miriam Bernard, Jill Rezzano and the Ages and
Stages Theatre Company
Social connectivity and creative approaches to dementia care: the case of a poetry intervention ‾ Kate de Medeiros and Aagje Swinnen
Narrative identity and resilience for people in later life with dementia living in care homes: the role of visual arts enrichment activities ‾
Andrew Newman, Bruce Davenport and Teri Howson-Griffiths
After the earthquake: narratives of resilience, re-signification of fear and revitalisation of local identities in rural communities of Paredones, Chile
‾ Cynthia Meersohn Schmidt, Paulina Osorio-Parraguez, Adriana Espinoza and Pamela Reyes
Integrating sense of place within new housing developments: a community-based participatory research approach ‾ Mei Lan Fang, Ryan Woolrych, Judith Sixsmith, Sarah L. Canham, Lupin Battersby, Tori Hui Ren and Andrew Sixsmith
Ageing in place: creativity and resilience in neighbourhoods ‾ Cathy Bailey, Rose Gilroy, Joanna Reynolds, Barbara Douglas, Claire Webster Saaremets, Mary Nicholls,Laura Warwick and Martin Gollan
Crafting resilience for later life ‾ Jackie Reynolds
Oral histories and lacemaking as strategies for resilience in women's craft groups ‾ Anna Sznajder and Katarzyna Kosmala
Objects of loss: resilience, continuity and learning in material culture relationships ‾ Helen Manchester
Later-life gardening in a retirement community: sites of identity, resilience and creativity ‾ Evonne Miller, Geraldine Donoghue, Debra Sullivan
and Laurie Buys
