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“Something to get out of bed for”: creative arts for a happily ageing population
- Author:
- CANN Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 20(4), 2016, pp.190-194.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to relate the growing body of evidence about the impact of creative arts on the health and well-being of older people to the debate about active ageing, prevention and demographic change. Design/methodology/approach: It draws on a range of researched examples in order to illustrate the impact of three different art forms – singing, dance and visual arts – on health and well-being. Findings: The evidence exists in increasing volume and diversity that creative arts not only improve personal feelings of well-being but also key physiological measures. The arts are increasingly recognised as playing a major potential role in the delivery of health and social care interventions. Greater recognition and action are needed from policy makers, commissioners and care providers in health and social care that the arts are not a marginal and elitist avenue but a mainstream tool supporting older people to remain active, healthy and independent. Importantly, they represent a powerful source of motivation, agency and confidence. Social implications: It argues that creative arts should become an integral and more prominent part of ageing policy. The evidence exists in increasing volume and diversity that creative arts not only improve personal feelings of well-being but also key physiological measures. The arts are increasingly recognised as playing a major potential role in the delivery of health and social care interventions. Greater recognition and action are needed from policy makers, commissioners and care providers in health and social care that the arts are not a marginal and elitist avenue but a mainstream tool supporting older people to remain active, healthy and independent. Importantly, they represent a powerful source of motivation, agency and confidence. Originality/value: An important research challenge remains, namely to plot cause (arts intervention) and effect (reduced demand on health and care services), if the creative arts are to occupy a central place in commissioning investment at a time of acute financial stringency in the public sector. (Publisher abstract)
Unequal ageing: the untold story of exclusion in old age
- Editors:
- CANN Paul, DEAN Malcolm, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 179p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book asserts that for very many older people growing older means loss of work, opportunity to contribute, health and well-being, family and friends, that over two million older people in the UK are in persistent poverty and that the diseases and disabilities associated with growing older multiply with the ageing of the population, and yet the response of communities and care systems is often inadequate and ageism still abounds. It also claims that at least one million older people feel that society has left the behind and that their lives have been reduced to mere survival. ‘Unequal ageing’ analyses the vital dimensions of money, health, place, quality of life and identity, and demonstrates the gaps of treatment and outcomes between older and younger people, and between different groups of older people. It provides evidence of the scale of current disadvantage in the UK. Issues of class, income, health, housing, quality of life and inequality in older age are addressed. Actions that could begin to change this situation are suggested.