Policy Press

Resilience and Ageing

Creativity, Culture and Community

Edited by Anna Goulding, Bruce Davenport and Andrew Newman

Published

Dec 19, 2018

Page count

224 pages

Browse the series

Connected Communities

ISBN

978-1447340928

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Dec 19, 2018

Page count

224 pages

Browse the series

Connected Communities

ISBN

978-1447340911

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Dec 19, 2018

Page count

224 pages

Browse the series

Connected Communities

ISBN

978-1447340959

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Dec 19, 2018

Page count

224 pages

Browse the series

Connected Communities

ISBN

978-1447340966

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press
Resilience and Ageing

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.

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

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