| dc.contributor.author | Moore, Sharon L. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-06-29T15:46:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-06-29T15:46:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-06-29T15:46:13Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2149/3077 | |
| dc.description | The accelerating increase of chronic diseases is challenging modern health care services to develop and adopt new strategies for health care provision. These changing health care strategies have major impacts on healthcare users and providers, who are pressured to adapt their understanding of their own health and their everyday practices. For example, modern health care provision increasingly presupposes the ability of every patient to self-administer his or her own health care. However, adherence to self-administering tasks is strenuous, complex and hard work, and demands a long-term commitment by the chronically ill person. New medical technologies push the boundaries of health care provision and it alters the professional roles of the health care workers. This conference was designed to critically scrutinise such changes of the social and health care systems and to examine alternative models. I presented on the final day of the conference in a concurrent session entitled Contexts of Health. The session was well received with opportunities for questions, comments and comparisons among the three presentations. Dialogues with international colleagues carried on into the coffee session following the presentations.
Feedback from the session was positive. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Background
Arts in health-care is an emerging movement that links the expressive arts with the healing arts and brings these into the mainstream of traditional health-care to promote well-being. Dr. Gene Cohen, who was an internationally renowned gerontologist lead the way with cutting-edge neuroscience and groundbreaking psychology to describe the emotional growth and wisdom that many older adults acquire through creative expression as they age. His research in this area demonstrated the significance of creativity in relation to aging such that it not only enables older people to have access to their own potential in later life, but it challenges younger age groups to think about what is possible in their later years in a different way.
Summary of methods and results
A photographic project was conducted in which data were collected at a Home for the Destitute Elderly and Children in Northern India. This visual arts project started as an endeavour to expand the scope of research, bringing together emerging fields of art, research and aging in an effort to capture the “spirit of aging” in different cultures. However, through being immersed in the culture of the Home, it became clear that the spirit of aging did not just exist in the elderly themselves, but in the rhythms of life reflected through the activities of the home. The results of the project are portrayed through an exhibit of photographs and a multimedia presentation that reflects the spirit of place.
Conclusion
Throughout the project, what became evident was the power of image to “bridge the chasm created by differences of language and alphabet” and reveal itself as a means for “universal communication” (Feinenger in Phillips, 2000, p. 25). | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 92.927.G1278; | |
| dc.subject | Arts in healthcare | en |
| dc.subject | Healing arts | en |
| dc.subject | Emotional growth | en |
| dc.subject | Universal communication | en |
| dc.title | A Place called Home: The Social and Cultural Context of Health | en |
| dc.type | Presentation | en |
