UK Timeline 2012
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Singing and mental health
This guide by the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health provides an overview of the evidence that group singing can be beneficial for mental health and wellbeing.
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Singing and people with COPD
This guide provides an overview of the evidence that group singing can be beneficial for respiratory health and wellbeing. It also gives information and guidance on setting up singing groups for people living in the community who have experience of diagnosed COPD. This includes conditions such as bronchitis and emph...
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Singing and people with Parkinson’s
This guide provides an overview of the evidence that group singing can be beneficial for people living with Parkinson’s. It also gives examples of setting up singing groups for people living in the community who are affected by the con...
Singing and people with dementia
This guide provides an overview of the evidence that group singing can be beneficial for people living with dementia. It also gives examples of setting up singing groups for people living in the community who are affected by dementia.
Enhancing the health and wellbeing of children and young people through the arts: A feasibility assessment for NHS Lambeth
A Feasibility Assessment for NHS Lambeth on enhancing the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People aged 11 – 18 through the Arts.
A Guide to Evaluating Participatory Arts and Health Projects
This guide forms part of advisory pack produced by PraXis to support healthcare staff, managers and their partners to deliver and sustain participatory arts and health projects in delivering specific public health outcomes.
Arts and Health Manifesto Part 2
This is the second part of the Arts for Health group ‘s Arts and Health manifesto. While the first part lays out the goals, actions, and beliefs of the organisation, the second part of the manifesto comprises reflections and commentary from the greater public and within the health community on the manifesto it...
A controlled evaluation of the health benefits of a participative community singing programme for older people
Findings from a controlled evaluation of the health benefits of a participative community singing programme for older people, involving a pragmatic randomised controlled trial by the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health.
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Be creative, be well: Arts, wellbeing and local communities: An evaluation
An independent evaluation of the ‘Be Creative Be Well’ programme, looking at the impact that the quality of the arts and cultural activity can have in community engagement and in improving health and wellbeing.
Participatory Arts and Well-being: Past and Present Practices
As part of the Connected Communities programme, this project aimed to examine diverse definitions of communal well-being and the complex ways in which participatory arts, past and present, have contributed to and sustained community well-being. It set out to study examples of best practice in content, process, outco...
Commissioning dance for health and well-being: Guidance and resources for commissioners
A dance programme guidance for commissioners.
Dancing Moments
A creative South Asian Dance resource to re-energise and inspire people in the early stages of dementia – this pack provides a guide not a template for working with dance and dementia.
Music in the care of people living with dementia: a cross-national study of staff perspectives
This study sought to provide greater understanding of macro and micro cultures and experiences amongst a sample of dementia-care staff that may influence their perceptions, attitudes and practices relating to recorded and live music-making activities in care-giving situations.
Making Rhythms: A toolkit for running music sessions with people with learning disabilities
This is a toolkit for running music sessions with people with learning disabilities.
Don’t be afraid to dance! An introduction to Dancing with Older People
This handbook is designed to help people lead movement sessions with older people in a range of settings.
Tackling loneliness in Older Age – The Role of the Arts
This report sees the Baring Foundation and the Campaign to End Loneliness come together to promote the case for the arts as a powerful tool to tackle the scourge of loneliness among older people.
Creative Evaluation Toolkit
This is a creative evaluation toolkit which offers practitioners’ creative techniques to engage participants.
Digital Arts and Older People: What is distinctive about working with older people using creative technology?
This paper was produced as a discussion document to aid a roundtable meeting on Digital Arts and Older People that was held by the Baring Foundation on 13th September 2012. This roundtable intended to consider the question: ‘what is distinctive about working with older people using digital arts and creative techno...