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Creative ageing: exploring social capital and arts engagement in later life. |
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Generations Review, 22(2), April 2012. Published online. |
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0965-2000 |
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This study explored the meanings that older people attach to their participation in group arts activities throughout their lives. The research focused upon: factors impacting on arts engagement (e.g. age, health, gender, cohort); the relationship between individual and group involvement and the links between arts participation and social capital. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 24 (8 male and 16 female) participants from a town in the English Midlands. Participants were recruited through a range of groups, including choirs, dancing, amateur dramatics, and arts and crafts groups. In interviews, participants were asked to reflect on their arts engagement throughout their lives. The study's findings suggest that much of older people's arts engagement has been something they have 'taken for granted', highlighting the key roles played by people's childhood experiences at home, school and church, in shaping arts engagement. People's arts engagement was also found to be strongly connected to their relationships with others. The study also found that people‟s arts engagement could be linked to their sense of approaching ageing in a positive way. |
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ageing; arts; leisure activities; older people; social capital; social networks; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=4d725c40-2c9a-4a09-a52b-95f6f5ecacd6 |
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