Resilience and ageing : creativity, culture and community / edited by Anna Goulding, Bruce Davenport and Andrew Newman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goulding, Anna, editor.

Davenport, Bruce, editor.

Newman, Andrew, 1960- editor.

Series:

Connected communities (Bristol, England)

Connected communities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people--Social conditions--21st century.

Older people.

Resilience (Personality trait).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2018.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4473-4095-7

1-4473-4094-9

1-4473-4093-0

OCLC:

1078875268