Resilience and Ageing

“Goulding et al.’s collection offers thought-provoking insights into pathways to individual and collective resilience in old age, as well as insights into the potential benefits of developing older people’s resilience through creativity…likely to be of interest to practitioners and researchers interested in a range of fields.” The Gerontologist

“This is a book that I really enjoyed. I particularly value the way that it challenged my own perception of ideas such as ‘resilience’ and ‘creativity’... I also loved the way that it brought so many projects, people and communities to life.” Community Development Journal

“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

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