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Additional Physical Format: | ebook version : |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Anna Goulding; Bruce Davenport; Andrew Newman |
ISBN: | 9781447340911 1447340914 9781447340928 1447340922 |
OCLC Number: | 1079203666 |
Description: | xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | 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, Judith Sixsmith, Ryan Woolrych, 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. |
Series Title: | Connected communities (Bristol, England) |
Responsibility: | edited by Anna Goulding, Bruce Davenport, Andrew Newman. |
Abstract:
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.
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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 waysin which cultural engagement can encourage older people to thrive." Simon Evans, University of Worcester Read more...
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