Painting place : re-imagining landscapes for older people's subjective wellbeing

Rose, Emma Elizabeth and Lonsdale, Stephen Mark (2016) Painting place : re-imagining landscapes for older people's subjective wellbeing. Health and Place, 40. pp. 58-65. ISSN 1353-8292

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Abstract

This study provides insights into how a participatory painting activity impacts older people’s subjective wellbeing. The study uses qualitative methods to analyze the findings, and employs qualitative data collection methods to examine how creativity conducted in an environment of relational connectivity is beneficial to wellbeing. The findings demonstrate that processes of re-imagining landscape contribute to participants’ retaining significant places in the mind when physical engagement is limited. The study reveals how the activity of re-imagining landscape provokes emotions and memories that help participants connect the past with the present, and to connect their older and younger-age selves, positively to reaffirm their older age identity. The paper reflects on the intervention as a form of encounter with landscape whose benefits are potentially therapeutic for different groups, particularly those for whom engagement with memories may assist with processes of adaptation or transition.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Health and Place
Additional Information:
This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Health and Place. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Health and Place, 40, 2016 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.05.002
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? health(social science)public health, environmental and occupational healthgeography, planning and development ??
ID Code:
79348
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Deposited On:
06 May 2016 14:24
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Published
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