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Visible Voices: Expressive arts with isolated seniors using trained volunteers
Fay Wilkinson1, Ann MacLeod2, Mark W Skinner3
1The Creative Cocoon, 2837 Haliburton Lake Road, P.O. Box 151, Eagle Lake, Ontario, Canada K0M 1M0.
Abstract:
This practice-based paper describes an innovative program from Ontario, Canada that explored the potential for volunteer-facilitated expressive arts to contribute to the well-being of socially isolated rural seniors. Inspired by Arts on Prescription initiatives in the UK and coordinated by a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator, the program involved eight older volunteers and eight older participants engaged in a 10-week series of one-on-one intermodal art-making activities in the participants' homes and institutional settings in 2009-2010. An evaluation of the program design and implementation is presented and the challenges and opportunities of expressive arts with isolated seniors using trained volunteers are discussed.
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