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Resilience and Ageing: Creativity, Culture and Community

Hardback

Main Details

Title Resilience and Ageing: Creativity, Culture and Community
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Anna Goulding
Edited by Bruce Davenport
Edited by Andrew Newman
SeriesConnected Communities
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9781447340911
ClassificationsDewey:305.26
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Policy Press
Imprint Policy Press
Publication Date 19 December 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

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 active ageing. This is the first book to bring researchers together from multiple disciplines to address the relationship between taking part in creative interventions and wellbeing. Academics with a wide range of expertise critically reflect on how the built environment, community living, cultural participation, lifelong learning, and artist-led interventions can aid older people to thrive and overcome both challenging life events and every day changes associated with ageing. Cultural engagement can allow older people to develop different types of meaningful social networks and, in the process, to actively contribute to contemporary societal debates. This book uses participatory research methods to look at the relationship between taking part in creative interventions, the development of different types of social relationships and fostering resilience.

Author Biography

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

Reviews

"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