Participatory arts projects empower care home residents
A two-year project across 20% of Welsh care homes found statistically significant improvements to wellbeing and staff perceptions…
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New £500k dance project to tackle inactivity in older people
The project marks a change in strategy for funder Sport England, which had signalled its willingness to consider how dance could t…
Arts organisations encouraged to engage older audiences
New ‘Age-Friendly Standards’ launched by the Family Arts Campaign aim to complement existing standards for welcoming f…
Community integration in south London
Félicie Kertudo tells how she visited the South London Gallery to find out more about how it involves the local community in a ra…
Arts and science combine for dementia care
A new study looking at the benefits of visual art activities for people living with dementia should provide the evidence that deci…
£2.3m to expand dance-based health initiative
1,000 older people will benefit from the extension of a ‘Dance to Health’ programme involving arts partners including…
£3m to engage older people in the arts
16 cultural organisations have been awarded funding by Arts Council England to create work for and with people over 75 years old.
A new dawn of dance
What’s behind the current rise in interest in dance for older people? Hannah Osmond has been finding out.
Emotional responses to music
Manchester Camerata’s work with people with dementia recently took its musicians to Tokyo to deliver training. Lucy Geddes r…
Facing the noisy outside world
West Yorkshire Playhouse’s commitment to dementia-friendly theatre has enhanced Barney Bardsley faith in humanity. She revea…
Benefits of dance for older people not fully appreciated, report says
Older people’s dance classes encourage long-term engagement, but artists face challenges developing relationships with docto…
Never too old to dance
Age shouldn’t be a barrier to dancing or performing, says Vicky Thornton. She shares the story of DANCE SIX-0, a contemporar…
Museum’s dementia care training to be rolled out across the UK
A pilot programme by National Museums Liverpool has successfully used drama to train health care professionals to support people t…
Arts Council England launches new strategic funds
Three new funds will help arts organisations become more resilient and more accessible to older people.
Guide offers blueprint for dementia friendly performances
Two years after hosting its first dementia friendly performance, West Yorkshire Playhouse has released a best-practice guide to pu…
Still invited to the party
How can you attend a festival if you can’t leave your house? Michael Eades describes a project bringing the festival experie…
The power of performance
Dance offers older people many physical and social benefits, but performing to an audience makes the greatest impact on wellbeing,…
Barriers to arts engagement deter older people, survey finds
Physical access and social isolation emerge as key factors linked to a decline in arts engagement among older people.
Arts sector encouraged to become dementia-friendly
A new guide, published by the Alzheimer’s Society, provides practical advice to arts organisations seeking to make their bui…
Working together with older people
Anne Gallacher describes the impact of an ongoing relationship between Luminate, Scotland’s creative ageing festival, and Ag…
Never too old
When Jim Mulligan joined Spare Tyre's workshops for older people, little did he know that he would go on to write four plays f…
Long live creative living
Susan Jones explains how innovative arts housing can enable older people to express themselves creatively late into life.
Tentative steps forwards
How many older people do you expect to see in a contemporary art gallery? Clare Hankinson tells how Fabrica’s older audience…
Extravagant acts
Daycare centres may not be grand venues, but that doesn’t mean art events staged in them should not be ambitious, says …
