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Gesture and handling: Designing a non-linguistic artbased process for Creative Ageing Opening Spaces project
The relocation to aged care can represent a savage dislocation from the small day-to-day tasks and relationships that accumulate across an individual’s long and well-lived life. Theatre arts offer a wide scope for expressive and therapeutic needs in such contexts. This article examines the value of embodied practices to support non-verbal interactions for older participants. It presents examples of the handbased activities we used and discusses the way these were drawn on to design the art-based methodology for the Creative Ageing Opening Spaces research project in Melbourne, Australia. Participant experiences are discussed and recommendations are made for art-led design processes, which value non-linguistic sensory practices as genuinely meaningful for creating uplifting care opportunities for older people.
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Journal of Applied Arts & HealthVolume
12Issue
1Pagination
57 - 71Publisher
IntellectLocation
Bristol, Eng.Publisher DOI
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2040-2457Language
engPublication classification
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