Creative Practice in the Resilience of Older People is the first book to bring researchers together from multiple disciplines to address the relationship between taking part in creative interventions and well-being. Understanding how creative interventions can help develop social connectivity and resilience for older people is vital in developing a holistic interdisciplinary approach towards active ageing. Academics with a wide range of expertise critically reflect on how the built environment, community living, cultural participation, lifelong learning, and artist-led interventions can aid older people to thrive and overcome both challenging life events and every day changes associated with ageing. Cultural engagement can allow older people to develop different types of meaningful social networks and, in the process, to actively contribute to contemporary societal debates. This book uses participatory research methods to look at the relationship between taking part in creative interventions, the development of different types of social relationships, and fostering resilience.
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Resilience is an area of growing interest within critical gerontology and policy agendas and in this book, academics with a wide range of expertise critically reflect on ways in which cultural engagement can encourage older people to thrive. Simon Evans, University of Worcester
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| Introduction |
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one Setting the field: older people's conceptualisation of resilience and its relationship to cultural engagement |
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two Ages and Stages: creative participatory research with older people |
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three Social connectivity and creative approaches to dementia care: the case of a poetry intervention |
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four Narrative identity and resilience for people in later life with dementia living in care homes: the role of visual arts enrichment activities |
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five After the earthquake: narratives of resilience, re-signification of fear and revitalisation of local identities in rural communities of Paredones, Chile |
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six Integrating sense of place within new housing developments: a community-based participatory research approach |
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seven Ageing in place: creativity and resilience in neighbourhoods |
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eight Crafting resilience for later life |
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nine Oral histories and lacemaking as strategies for resilience in women's craft groups Anna |
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ten Objects of loss: resilience, continuity and learning in material culture relationships |
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eleven Later-life gardening in a retirement community: sites of identity, resilience and creativity |
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Anna Goulding is a Research Associate at the Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University.
Andrew Newman is Professor of Cultural Gerontology at Newcastle University. His research focuses on resilience, connectivity and community participation.
Bruce Davenport is a Research Associate in Media, Culture, Heritage in the School of Arts & Cultures at Newcastle University
