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| Creative approaches to working with older people in the public realm | | Author(s) | Daniel Baker |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 18, no 1, 2014 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2014 |
| Pages | pp 10-17 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/wwop.htm |
| Keywords | Cultural activities ; Older people ; Young people ; Community work ; Projects ; United States of America ; Australia ; New Zealand. |
| Annotation | Older people can be "invisible" and feel threatened in public life and the public realm. This paper illustrates practical examples of arts projects that have successfully engaged older people in the public realm. It also aims to stimulate debate and to provide practical insights for the arts, planning and social care sectors. The paper presents research gathered during an international fellowship supported by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to the USA, New Zealand and Australia. Selected projects illustrate three key approaches to working creatively with older people in the public realm: engaging older people in creative retelling of public histories; enabling older people to become individual artists in the public eye; and creating performances by and with older people in the public realm. The paper finds that the arts can offer a range of practical methods for engaging older people in the public realm and with the following potential outcomes: increasing their visibility in public life; increasing their active role in communities; and exploring important questions about the public realm and ageing. Arts projects can thus offer a number of ways to increase their visibility and agency in public spaces and services, particularly through enabling and supporting their creative expression, and by bringing communication and collaboration to the fore. This and other articles in this issue of Working with Older People has as its theme creativity, the arts and older people. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-150529231 A |
| Classmark | H4: B: SB: IGC: 3E: 7T: 7YA: 7YN |
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