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Gallery and Beyond: training to transform arts for older adults

This report explores how museums can inspire creativity and build exceptional arts programmes for people in later life and highlights how this momentum can be sustained...

Reminiscence and arts for older people in Japan

Pam Schweitzer, from Blackheath, is Director of the European Reminiscence Network and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Greenwich. Pam travelled to Japan...

Arts in a state of change

Kate Organ, a freelance arts management adviser from Smethwick, travelled to Japan to investigate arts in a state of change.

Professional and creative development for writers working with older people

Gemma Seltzer, a writer from London, travelled to the USA and Australia to explore professional and creative development for writers working with older people.

Comparison of activity provision and the arts for older people

Sylvie Silver, from Woking, is director of the charity National Activity Providers Association (NAPA). She will be travelling to Australia and the USA to research arts...

Creating together: connecting people with dementia, families, communities and theatre

Arts & Older People: Exploring the Value of Creative Expression'

Laura Menzies, an arts facilitator from Falmouth, will be travelling to the USA to study exemplary practice in multi-disciplinary community arts projects with older people.

Artists' engagement with life story work in nursing homes

Caroline Twist, an activities co-ordinator from Sheffield, will be travelling to Brazil and Germany, amongst other countries, to investigate the role of the artist in a...

Art Therapy: digital devices, tablet computers, palliative care, chronic illness

The aim of my Fellowship was to gain knowledge of digital art therapy to benefit interventions in palliative care, and in training art therapists in the UK. Interviews...

Photography and storytelling: people with early stage dementia's experiences explored

Alison Ward is a researcher at the University of Northampton. She will be travelling to Denmark to explore the experiences of people with early stage dementia, through...

Arts based interventions for early stage dementia: an American perspective

Amy Veale, a research development manager from Belfast, will be travelling to Canada and the USA to research arts-based interventions for people with early stage dementia.