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The Imagine programme in Nottingham is one of four nationally to be awarded funding as part of Arts Council England and The Baring Foundation’s Arts and older people in care programme
Key consortium partnersThe Abbeyfield Society – lead partner
Nottingham City Council (Arts and Adult Services)
City Arts
The University of Nottingham (research and evaluation)
Care Home Partners (17 in total):
Abbeyfields, Eastgate Care, Nottinghamshire Hospice, Nottingham City Homes and Radford Care Group (day care).
Wider Consortium:
Open Arts Forum (OAF) – representing all of the main arts venues in Nottingham City
University of Nottingham – Mixed Reality Lab – supporting work exploring digital technology
The programme aims to:
Introduce arts practice that challenges, engages, stimulates and enables older people in care to have access to a rich culture offer
Define a person centred approach to programming with the voice of older people in care who will become co-commissioners/producers of new work, inform our practice, training and research
Expand the skills, experience and practice of artists, care providers and volunteers to best develop and respond to opportunities for high quality engagement in art
Evaluate outcomes of what is learnt in order to inform and roll out the project to national care providers.
The Imagine programme will consist of artist residencies, commissions and opportunities to see and participate in regular arts activities and events.
It will balance actual visits to and from artists with an exploration of live streaming and facilitated ‘virtual’ visits utilising media and technologies.
Programme elements in Year 1:
Armchair Art Gallery
Open Arts Forum – a series of programmes delivered by arts venues in Nottingham City
Nottingham Carnival – creation of a large-scale puppet and a partnership with Men in
Sheds (Age UK Notts) to produce elements for the carnival
Digital Arts – ipad Engage
Music commission
Film commission
Mixed Reality Lab – the digital arts will be explored with residents working in partnership
with Nottingham University
Live streaming - concerts and recitals will be filmed and livestreamed into care settings
Training
The Imagine programme model
The vision uses high quality arts programmes to enrich the lives of older people in care, with the potential to change perceptions about care homes and explore how they might fit better into the community
Through consultation, respond to the residents and care staff’s needs and ideas
Provide opportunities for residents to have choice and control over their environment and participation in high quality arts and cultural activities
Continued … Create an environment that promotes good relationships with family,
partners, friends and staff
Work alongside care staff valuing their expertise and supporting them to raise aspirations in relation to arts engagement and cultural opportunities for residents
Provide training and practical support for care staff, families, volunteers and artists in specialist areas such as dementia, non-verbal communication and other health conditions that may impact on how individual’s can access the different strands of the programme
Support older people in care to seek new opportunities to engage with the programme offer, the wider community and the arts to improve cognitive functioning, communication, enjoyment of life, mood, memory and creative thinking
Where are we now …Care homes/residents engaged since February 2014:
11 care homes engaged
61 workshops facilitated with 286 residents
79 men engaged with the programme and 207 women
37 participants from arts venues, artists and care staff have attended training and achieved their Dementia Friends awards
101 likes and
around 6,000 reached through our Imagine Facebook Page
www.facebook.com/ImagineartsNottinghamshire
Baseline Evaluation in Nottingham Care Homes
University of Nottingham: Institute of Mental Health, Centre for Dementia
Bethany Jones, Tom Dening, Justine Schneider, Victoria Tischler
Method • Semi-structured interviews with manager or deputy manager
• Semi structured interview with activity co-ordinator, where applicable
Thematic analysis guided by study areas of enquiry:
• The role of the activities coordinator• Activities in care homes• Art awareness in care homes• Attitudes towards the arts• How care home personnel value the arts• Facilitators and barriers
Findings 1. Existing provision
2. Awareness and attitudes
3. Perceived barriers
4. Expectations and experiences of Imagine Arts so far
Conclusions• Existing provision varies with bias towards crafts and occupational
activities
• ‘Art’ tends to come in from outside the home
• Staff attitudes towards all these activities are predominantly instrumental
• Openness towards digital arts
• Cognitive impairment and apathy are perceived to present challenges
• Realism about costs of mainstreaming/implementation
Arts and older people in care
https://www.facebook.com/ImagineartsNottinghamshire
The Abbeyfield Societywww.abbeyfield.com
City Arts: www.city-arts.org.ukhttps://twitter.com/CityArtsNotts
Email Kate Duncan: [email protected]