Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care: Photovoice, Photography and Poetry in Action

ISBN-13: 9780367686376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 166 str.

Evonne Miller

Opis

This timely book explores what it is like to live in an aged care home: the expectations that new residents and their families enter with, their relationships with fellow residents and formal caregivers, and how they approach, in different ways, the reality that this place is where they will die.

Spis treści

1. Why we must talk about residential aged care.  2. Arts-based research.  Part 1: Entering aged care.  3. Leaving home – and entering aged care.  Part 2: Daily life in aged care.  4. 1022 days: why design matters.  5. Everyday life, health, and leisure.  6. Relationships with staff and family.  7. Secrets and sexuality: the value of trauma-informed care.  Part 3: Dying in aged care. 8. Death and dying in aged care.  9. The transformative potential of technology.  10. Thinking differently about aged care.

O autorze

Evonne Miller is Professor of Design Psychology and Director of the QUT Design Lab in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. With a background in environmental and design psychology, Evonne’s research focuses on creating sustainable, inclusive and age-friendly places – and she is a passionate advocate for creative arts-based participatory research methods.