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| Author | Ander, E.; Thomson, L.; Lanceley, A.; Menon, U.; Noble, G. | |
| Title | Heritage, Health and Wellbeing: Assessing the impact of a heritage focused intervention on health and wellbeing. | |
| Reference | Ander, E., Thomson, L., Lanceley, A., Menon, U., Noble, G., et al. (2013). Heritage, Health and Wellbeing: Assessing the impact of a heritage focused intervention on health and wellbeing. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 19 (3), pp. 229–42; |
Link to article | https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2011.651740 |
| Abstract | Do museums and other heritage organisations have something to offer the healthcare sector? Do they have a role in improving health and wellbeing?
Increasingly both heritage and healthcare organisations think they do. A broader definition of health including wellbeing and an emphasis on preventative medicine and multi-agency approaches to care within the UK’ s National Health Service, has facilitated the work of museums and galleries in this area. However, there are still few specific heritage programmes in healthcare organisations and very little evaluation of these. Here we present key findings from a qualitative evaluation of a heritage focused intervention carried out in a range of health care settings. The aim of the research project was to assess the impact on wellbeing of taking museum objects into hospitals and healthcare contexts. |
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| Most participants expressed improved wellbeing after the intervention, such as improved mood, calmed anxiety or a feeling of enhanced confidence. . | It is also crucial that people feel a sense of relatedness to other people, so that in addition to the personal, internally focused elements, peoples social experiences - the degree to which they have supportive relationships and a sense of connection with others - form a vital aspect of well-being. . | In conclusion, closer links between heritage and social care organizations, such as hospitals or care homes, offers significant mutualistic benefits and should not be underestimated.. | Participants reactions to handling museum objects gave an insight into why heritage objects in particular (rather than pictures or non-heritage objects) produce engagement, feelings (positive and negative) and wellbeing benefits. . | The multi-centre research also showed that a museum handling session is a versatile and accessible tool to improve wellbeing for long and short term patients, and sufferers of mental and physical ill health alike. . | Their research has resulted in the articulation of the Interactive Learning Model which proposes that the physical environment, the social context, the personal background of the museum visitor and subsequent experiences, all affect the learning that happens during a museum visit. . | Wellbeing outcomes Engagement in the objects provided stimulation and distraction, both highly important for wellbeing in the hospital context. . | Care of heritage collections and the need for trained facilitation also need to be thought about for such projects to work. . | For example, heritage objects have usually been collected because they are significant. . |
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