Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care
This timely book explores what it is like to live in an aged care home: the expectations that new residents and their families enter with, their relationships with fellow residents and formal caregivers, and how they approach, in different ways, the reality that this place is where they will die.
Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care draws on an immersive semi-longitudinal four-year study and purposely privileges the voices and perspective of older residents. Using creative arts-based qualitative research methods, specifically participatory photography and research poetry, it demonstrates the experience of contemporary aged care from the perspective of those who matter most: older residents. Divided into three parts covering entering residential aged care, daily life in aged care and dying in aged care, the book stimulates debate and discussion about current practice and the future of aged care in the context of rapid population ageing and care automation.
It is an essential reading for all scholars and students working in the fields of gerontology, social work, psychology, design and nursing, particularly those tasked with redesigning aged care in the twenty-first century.
Evonne Miller is Professor of Design Psychology and Director of the QUT Design Lab in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. With a background in environmental and design psychology, Evonnes research focuses on creating sustainable, inclusive and age-friendly places and she is a passionate advocate for creative arts-based participatory research methods.
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Evonne Miller
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Names: Miller, Evonne, author.
Title: Creative arts-based research in aged care : photovoice, photography
and poetry in action / Evonne Miller.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2021. | Series: Routledge advances in
health and social policy | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020048265 (print) | LCCN 2020048266 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367467586 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003030874 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Older peopleCareResearch. | Social work with older
peopleResearch. | Art and older peopleResearch. | Psychology
Qualitative research.
Classification: LCC HV1451 .M554 2021 (print) | LCC HV1451 (ebook) |
DDC 362.61dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020048265
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020048266
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ISBN: 978-0-367-68637-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-03087-4 (ebk)
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Contents
2 Arts-based research
PART 1
Entering aged care
3 Leaving home and entering residential aged care
PART 2
Daily life in aged care
4 913 days: why design matters
5 Everyday life, health and leisure
6 Relationships with staff and family
7 Secrets and sexuality: the value of trauma-informed care
PART 3
Dying in aged care
8 Death and dying in aged care
9 The transformative potential of technology
10 Thinking differently about aged care
- 2 Arts-based research
- PART 1 Entering aged care
- 3 Leaving home and entering residential aged care
- PART 2 Daily life in aged care
- 4 913 days: why design matters
- 5 Everyday life, health and leisure
- 6 Relationships with staff and family
- 7 Secrets and sexuality: the value of trauma-informed care
- PART 3 Dying in aged care
- 8 Death and dying in aged care
- 9 The transformative potential of technology
- 10 Thinking differently about aged care
Guide
2.1 Patrick, walking around aged care
2.2 A staff member at work
2.3 Residents selecting images and researchers planning exhibition layout
2.4 The exhibition experience
3.1 Maries teacups and Lillians tiger creating a feeling of home
3.2 Richard in his room
4.1 Lillian, in her room, surrounded by her memories
4.2 The communal aged care environment
4.3 Corridors in aged care
4.4 My space inside Doriss room
4.5 Pearls writing desk, Berthas organ and treasured possessions
4.6 Inside residents rooms, including the teacup of independence
4.7 Emmies mothers clock, chiming randomly to say hello
4.8 Mealtimes, including Patricks BBQ sauce bottle stashed in his walker
4.9 Patricks Scrambled Eggs Wednesday his favourite day of the week
4.10 Exterior environments, nature and the library
5.1 Residents engaging in leisure activities inside aged care
5.2 Residents engaging in leisure activities inside and outside aged care