Journal
HEALTH & PLACE
Volume 48, Issue -, Pages 47-55Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.08.005
Keywords
Museums; Wellbeing; Social isolation; Social prescribing, older people; Healthy ageing
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- Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/L012987/1]
- AHRC [AH/L012987/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/L012987/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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This paper presents research findings that help to understand how museum programs created opportunities to enhance wellbeing and health, and changed experiences of social isolation in older adults. The research conceptualized how program elements enabled both individual experiences and relational processes to occur. These components operated within a context that was enriched by the museum as a place to support wellbeing and enhance social interaction. To meaningfully support socially isolated older people as part of local public health strategies, museums need to be accessible and engaging places that purposively support social interaction by involving people and objects, participating in multiple sessions over time, that are facilitated by skilled and knowledgeable staff.
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