1st Edition

Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care Photovoice, Photography and Poetry in Action

By Evonne Miller Copyright 2021
178 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This timely book explores what it is like to live in an aged care home: the expectations that new residents and their families enter with, their relationships with fellow residents and formal caregivers, and how they approach, in different ways, the reality that this place is where they will die. Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care draws on an immersive semi-longitudinal four-year... Read more

List of Figures
List of Poems
List of Tables
Acknowledgements

Foreword

Chapter 1. Why we must talk about residential aged care

Chapter 2. Arts-based research

Part 1: Entering aged care

Chapter 3. Leaving home – and entering aged care

Part 2: Daily life in aged care

Chapter 4. 1022 days: why design matters

Chapter 5. Everyday life, health, and leisure

Chapter 6. Relationships with staff and family

Chapter 7. Secrets and sexuality: the value of trauma-informed care

Part 3: Dying in aged care

Chapter 8. Death and dying in aged care

Chapter 9. The transformative potential of technology

Chapter 10. Thinking differently about aged care

Index 

Biography

Evonne Miller is Professor of Design Psychology and Director of the QUT Design Lab in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. With a background in environmental and design psychology, Evonne’s research focuses on creating sustainable, inclusive and age-friendly places – and she is a passionate advocate for creative arts-based participatory research methods.