UK Timeline 2013

The National Positive Ageing Strategy

The National Positive Ageing Strategy is a commitment in the Programme for Government, outlining Ireland’s vision for ageing and older people. ’ Cultural and social participation is a key policy area addressed under one of its four goals.

OECD Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being

With this online book, OECD has produced Guidelines which provide advice on the collection and use of measures of subjective well being. These Guidelines have been produced as part of the OECD Better Life Initiative, a pioneering project launched in 2011, with the objective to measure society’s progress across ele...

Arts, health and wellbeing beyond the Millennium: How far have we come and where do we want to go?

This report gives an overview of the arts and health field, with particular reference to the UK and New Zealand. It provides a review of the evidence for the benefits of the arts to health, as well as the policy context of commissioning arts and health initiatives.

Investing in Arts on Prescription: an economic perspective

A small feasibility study aimed to identify not only budgeted resources allocated to an Arts on Prescription programme, but also to highlight some of the added value that the project generated through in-kind contributions to programme implementation. This was important in order to identify the true economic cost of...

After You are Two: Exemplary Practice in Participatory Arts with Older People

Based on visits to a wide range of projects funded by the Baring Foundation, Arts Adviser Kate Organ has sought to distil what is important in working with older people and the significance it has for an artist’s own practice.

Reawakening the Mind

Evaluation of Arts 4 Dementia’s London Arts Challenge in 2012: Arts interventions
to re-energise and inspire people in the early stages of dementia and their carers.

Healthy Attendance? The Impact of Cultural Engagement and Sports Participation on Health and Satisfaction with Life in Scotland

Data from the Scottish Household Survey 2011 has been used to statistically explore the relationship between taking part in cultural and sporting activities, attending cultural places and key quality of life measures in Scotland. This report from the Scottish Government Social Research presents the findings of the a...

Dance for Lifelong Wellbeing: Project report 2013

The project provided opportunities for older adults, who would not normally get an opportunity to dance, to participate in tailored classes.

An integral element of the project was the provision of training and mentoring for the six teachers who volunteered hours of their time to lead the specialist classes.

Being in tune: Seeking ways of addressing isolation and dislocation through engaging in the arts. A provocation paper

Paper to demonstrate how participating in the arts can help to transform the quality of people’s lives.

Kids Company: A diagnosis of the organisation and its interventions

A review of available evidence on the impact of Kids Company on its clients and an investigation of the internal structure of the organisation and its interventions.

Milton Keynes arts for health: Arts on prescription. An evaluation

This report describes a service evaluation of the first year of an arts on prescription project delivered in Milton Keynes between July 2011 and August 2012 for participants with mild to moderate mental health needs.

Arts on prescription 2010-2012: Research report

Evaluation of an Arts on Prescription 12-week visual arts programme for adults experiencing mild-moderate anxiety or depression.

Creative Progression: Reflections on quality in participatory arts

This paper reflects on the meaning and assessment of quality in participatory arts.

Late flowering: Art and wellbeing in old age

Considered thoughts on recent changes in the provision for older people across the UK.

Arts, health and wellbeing: Personal reflections and political perspectives

Transcript of address to Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference Bristol, June 2013.

Arts, Health and Wellbeing: resilient people and communities

Transcript of presentation by Professor John Wyn Owen at The Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference in Bristol 2013.

Art Lift, Gloucestershire (project extension). Evaluation report

Final report of a primary care based art intervention where health professionals referred NHS patients for a 10 week art programme, usually delivered in a primary care setting.

Is music the best medicine? Using prescribed music to enhance quality of life for people with dementia and their carer

Unfolding arts in health: Belfast Trust arts in health strategy 2013-2015

A strategy document for promoting better health and wellbeing through access to the arts, for all who come into contact with Belfast Trust.

What do we know about the role of arts in the delivery of social care? A briefing paper

An evidence review and activity mapping study to inform future thinking around the role of arts in the delivery of adult social care and in particular the implications for workforce development.

 

Art for Art’s Sake? The Impact of Arts Education

Arts education is often said to be a means of developing critical and creative thinking. This OECD report examines the state of empirical knowledge about the impact of arts education on these kinds of outcomes.

Art Works: Using the arts to promote emotional health and wellbeing in schools

This report shares the learning from a creative project in four Nottinghamshire schools which used collaboration with artists to improve the emotional health of the whole school community.

From dependence to independence: emerging lessons from the Rotherham Social Prescribing Pilot

This is the first report from the independent evaluation of the innovative Rotherham Social Prescribing Pilot being undertaken by the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) at Sheffield Hallam University.

A Literature-Based Intervention for Older People Living with Dementia

This report addresses the impact and effect that a specific literature-based intervention called “Get Into Reading”, designed and practised by The Reader Organisation, might have on the health and wellbeing of people living with dementia.

Museums and Happiness: The value of participating in museums and the arts

This paper looks at the relationships between museums, the arts and wellbeing using data from the Taking Part survey. It looks at the impacts of the arts on people’s subjective wellbeing and health and attach values to these impacts. This is the Wellbeing Valuation approach, which has been recently developed a...

Inclusion Through Art: An organisational guideline to using the participatory arts with young refugees and asylum seekers

This document provides practical guidelines for organisations that seek to improve their engagement with young refugees and asylum seekers through developing participatory arts and media projects.

Make my day: the impact of Creative Caring in older people’s care homes

An SROI evaluation of Creative Carers – a training programme that instils a broad approach to creativity in older people’s care homes.