Resilience and Ageing: Creativity, Culture and Community

ISBN-13: 9781447340928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str.

Anna Goulding; Bruce Davenport; Andrew Newman

Opis

A multidisciplinary collection examining how cultural engagement can enhance resilience, reduce social isolation and help older people to thrive and overcome challenging life events and everyday problems associated with ageing.

Spis treści

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