The Cultural Value of Older People’s Experiences of Theater-making: A Review

Bernard, Miriam; Rickett, Michelle

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“…A recent review of the literature on older adults' participation in theatre and drama illustrates its values in three areas [24,36]: improved mental health and well-being; the provision of opportunities for learning and creative expression; and enhanced group relationships. However, this literature review indicates that an essential need exists to expand the academic research in the field in order to explore the manner in which participation in drama and theater in late life encourages transformation.…”

Section: Participation In Theatre and Drama In Late Lifementioning

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“…The literature discusses the healing potential of older adults’ involvement and participation in theatre and drama [ 23 , 24 ]. A pilot randomized control trial indicated that short programs, which include dramatic exercises, rehearsing, and performing, lead to the enhanced self-esteem, confidence, and happiness among older adults [ 25 ].…”

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Playback theatre in adult day centers: A creative group intervention for community-dwelling older adults

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The literature indicates that theatre and drama-based interventions have the potential to improve older adults' well-being and health. The goal of the current study was to characterize the process of a creative group intervention in adult day centers (ADCs), which integrates playback theatre and life-review principles. Our objective was to provide an evidence-informed framework for drama therapy interventions, which would allow older adults to bring up and explore their life-stories in a dramatic creative process in their own community. A total of 27 participants ranging in age from 63 to 91, took part in one of three playback theatre groups. The playback theatre group intervention comprised 12 weekly sessions. All sessions were videotaped to capture the lived experience of the creative process and were analyzed in post-intervention interviews. In addition, focus group meetings were conducted with 13 ADC staff members to decipher further the effects of the participation as perceived by people outside the groups. Three types of potential transformation were identified in the qualitative analysis: the evolution of life stories, evolution of playfulness, and expansion of social engagement. The results indicate the potential of the integrative framework to serve as a creative intervention in ADC communities, as well as its potential to bring about a personal transformation and expand it to enable a person's social engagement in the community. The findings imply the potential benefits of using playback theatre groups to supplement the routine care provided in ADCs.

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Section: Participation In Theatre and Drama In Late Lifementioning

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Playback theatre in adult day centers: A creative group intervention for community-dwelling older adults

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“…Als besonders wirksam in diesem Zusammenhang wurden immer wieder kreative Tätigkeiten beschrieben (vgl. etwa für Review-Studien Bernard und Rickett 2016;Fraser et al 2015).…”

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“…Die positiven Wirkungen von künstlerischen und kulturellen Tätigkeiten auf die Lebensqualität (Bernard und Rickett 2016;Fraser et al 2015), die Gesundheit (Noice und Noice 2013) oder die Entwicklung von positiven Einstellungen gegenüber dem Älterwerden (Reynolds 2015) wurden immer wieder hervorgehoben, trotzdem stellen ältere Menschen eine unterrepräsentierte Zielgruppe der kulturellen Bildung dar (De Groote und Neubauer 2009). Ebenso zeigt sich, dass sich Bildungschancen mit dem Austritt aus dem Erwerbsleben verändern: Die Wahrscheinlichkeit für eine Teilnahme an Bildungsangeboten sinkt in der nachberuflichen Phase (Gallistl und Wanka 2016).…”

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Doing age in cultural organizations—a praxeological approach towards ageing in cultural education

Gallistl

Parisot

Birke

2019

Österreich Z Soziol

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Zusammenfassung Mit dem demografischen Wandel verlängert sich nicht nur die Lebenszeit von Individuen, es findet auch eine Veränderung der Lebensphase Alter selbst statt. Statt einem lange vorherrschenden Ruhestandsmodell zu folgen, fokussieren Politik und Wissenschaft zunehmend auf die Aktivierung der älteren Bevölkerung. Bildung, Lernen und kulturelles Engagement älterer Menschen gewinnen damit an Bedeutung. Gleichzeitig stellt die kulturelle Bildung für Menschen in der nachberuflichen Phase ein Randthema dar, das bislang kaum öffentlich diskutiert oder wissenschaftlich erforscht wurde. Während für ältere Menschen also zunehmend der Anspruch entsteht, ihre nachberufliche Lebensphase aktiv zu gestalten, finden sich in Bildungs-und Kulturorganisationen bislang selten Angebote, in denen diese Ansprüche realisiert werden können. Ausgehend von Teilergebnissen des Projekts "Zugangsbarrieren für ältere Menschen in der kulturellen Bildung-,Mainstreaming Ageing' im Kultursektor" (2016-2018) wird im folgenden Beitrag basierend auf sechs qualitativen Fallstudien kultureller Bildungsangebote für ältere Menschen der Frage nachgegangen, welche impliziten Altersbilder sich in kulturellen Bildungsangeboten in Österreich finden. Dabei wird ein Schwerpunkt darauf gelegt, wie diese in der Angebotsgestaltung diskursiv verhandelt werden, wie sich diese durch Lernziele ausdrücken und welche sozialen Positionen dabei für ältere Teilnehmende entstehen. Aufbauend darauf wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Rolle Selbstbestimmung, Selbstorganisation und Empowerment älterer Menschen in kulturellen Bildungsangeboten spielen und wie

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“…Theories: late-life creativity and the practices of valuation To date, research has mostly focused on the positive impacts creative engagement holds for older adults' health and quality of life (see e.g. Cutler, 2009;Castora-Binkley et al, 2010;Noice and Noice, 2013;Fraser et al, 2015;Reynolds, 2015;Bernard and Rickett, 2016). Research has repeatedly shown that creative and artistic activities hold potentials for older adults' physical and mental health (Cutler, 2009;Castora-Binkley et al, 2010), social integration (Goulding, 2012;Reynolds, 2015) and the development of positive images of ageing (Sabeti, 2014;Reynolds, 2015;Swinnen, 2018).…”

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What's it worth? Value and valuation of late-life creativity

Gallistl

2020

Ageing and Society

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New interest in late-life creativity has arisen in gerontology. To date, such research has mainly focused on the positive impact creativity has on older adults, but has scarcely contextualised older adults’ creative engagement. Drawing on the sociology of valuation, this article aims to contextualise late-life creativity by critically exploring how creativity gains, stabilises and loses its value and how these processes are related to perceptions, images and discourses addressing old age. Data from 13 interviews with older (60+) adults involved in creative practices in Austria are used to explore these topics. Interviews examined perceptions of creative production, everyday routines and personal attitudes towards ageing. Interviews transcripts were analysed using the documentary method. The analysis revealed three registers of valuation in late-life creativity: economic value, in which valuable creativity was given away at a high revenue; field value, where valuable creativity was appreciated by institutions or other artists in the field; and lifecourse value, in which doing a creative activity for a long time meant being able to produce a creative product that was high in value. This article emphasises late-life creativity as a process of value production that is structured by the making and evaluating of creative products and adds to the current critique that the narrow view of late-life creativity in its associations with wellbeing present a reductionist picture of the capacities that the arts and creativity have for older adults. The results demonstrate the potential for valuation studies in gerontology as they highlight the circumstances and practices by which the activities of older adults are (de)valued. For policy and practice, this article suggests imagining arts-based interventions for older adults beyond the realm of health and wellbeing, and encourages thinking about how valuable artistic experiences can be supported in later life.

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The Cultural Value of Older People’s Experiences of Theater-making: A Review

Cited by 19 publications

References 40 publications

Playback theatre in adult day centers: A creative group intervention for community-dwelling older adults

Playback theatre in adult day centers: A creative group intervention for community-dwelling older adults

Doing age in cultural organizations—a praxeological approach towards ageing in cultural education

What's it worth? Value and valuation of late-life creativity

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