Description:
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.
Brief description: Maastricht University
Review Quotes: "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