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Community arts participation linked with wellbeing, life satisfaction and purpose in older adults

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Dec 14 2022
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Karen Mak considers a recent study that explores the associations between participation in community arts groups and aspects of wellbeing in older adults in the US.

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Tagged with: ageing, Aging & Mental Health, art galleries, art participation, arts, community psychology, community-based interventions, cross-sectional research, cultural engagement, culture, emotional wellbeing, later life, life purpose, local community, mental illness prevention, older adults, propensity score matching, social prescribing, social wellbeing, united states, wellbeing

Social prescribing: we’re doing it more and more, but is there evidence that it works?

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Nov 21 2019
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Stella Tsoli and Dafni Katsampa summarise a recent systematic review on the impact of social prescribing on service users, which suggests that social prescribing leads to improvements in health and wellbeing, health-related behaviours, self-concepts, feelings, social contacts and day-to-day functioning.

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Tagged with: behavioural functioning, cultural engagement, European Journal of Public Health, health and wellbeing, mixed methods study, narrative synthesis, physical activity, positive self concept, primary care, qualitative, self-concept, self-esteem, social interaction, social prescribing, systematic review

Can arts engagement improve wellbeing for older adults?

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Henry Aughterson writes his debut blog about a study of longitudinal associations between short-term, repeated, and sustained arts engagement and well-being outcomes in older adults.

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Tagged with: art galleries, arts, cinema, concerts, cultural activities, cultural engagement, emotional wellbeing, health and wellbeing, longitudinal, museums, music, opera, psychological wellbeing, theatre, wellbeing

Can cultural activities protect people against depression in older age?

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Aug 9 2019
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Dafni Katsampa summarises the findings of a study that uses data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing to explore cultural engagement (theatre, concert, cinema, art exhibition or museum) and incident depression in older adults.

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Tagged with: art galleries, cohort study, cultural activities, cultural engagement, culture, depression, engagement, later life, mental illness prevention, museums, music, older adults
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