Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care

Name: Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged CarePhotovoice, Photography and Poetry in Action\nAuthor(s): Evonne Miller\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367467586, 978-0367467586\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n\nCreative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care draws on an immersive semi-longitudinal four-year study and purposely privileges the voices and perspective of older residents. Using creative arts-based qualitative research methods, specifically participatory photography and research poetry, it demonstrates the experience of contemporary aged care from the perspective of those who matter most: older residents. Divided into three parts covering en.