Enhancing the Voices of Older People with Complex Care Needs by Using Creative Approaches to Build the Evidence
This multidisciplinary online workshop will provide opportunities to experience creative practices that support the enhancement of the voices of older people with complex care needs in evidence building within health and social care.
The main users of health and social care services are older people with complex care needs, yet their voices and those close to them are substantially under-represented in the research process. Involving older people with complex care needs in evidence building is crucial for our research to be meaningful and useful to improving the experience, quality of life and services provided to those in the last phase of life. A shift away from the dominant modes of knowledge production, which privilege “knowing about something in intellectual terms of ideas and theories”, to creative methods which emphasise multidisciplinary and multi-sensory approaches, is required. This workshop moves the focus to appreciating and utilising knowledge produced and expressed through senses and experiences, drawing from arts and social science approaches, and created and communicated though different creative media. The two half-day participative workshops will introduce, critically discuss and provide opportunities to experience creative practices that support the enhancement of the voices of older people with complex care needs in evidence building within health and social care.
***WORKSHOP TWO***
PARTICIPATION
This second workshop focuses on how we can develop critical creativity in our practice as clinicians and researchers. Once you have registered, an email will be sent to you in advance of the workshop with a request for you to have items or materials available to you during the workshop to engage in the creative activities, as well as providing Zoom joining instructions.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Wendy Parkin, co-author of ‘Age at Work’ Ambiguous Boundaries of Organizations, Organizing and Ageingand author on gender with continuing interest on this topic, formerly based at Huddersfield University. Aged 84 years.
Gill Phillips, Director at Nutshell Communications Ltd, Creator of ‘Whose Shoes?’
Dr Jed Jerwood, Senior Art Psychotherapist, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust; Clinical Academic, University of Birmingham
