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| Id | 941 | |
| Author | Wyatt M., Liggett S. | |
| Title | The Potential of Painting: Unlocking Disenfranchised Grief for People Living With Dementia | |
| Reference | Wyatt M., Liggett S.; The Potential of Painting: Unlocking Disenfranchised Grief for People Living With Dementia ;Illness Crisis and Loss vol:27.0 issue: 1 page:51 |
Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85048875819&doi=10.1177%2f1054137318780577&partnerID=40&md5=ae2a496bdaa02fb6a1db44bf3058311a |
| Abstract | As part of the Creative Well program at a local health board, one of the authors qualitatively investigated how painting can access a means of communication for people living with dementia. In a workshop setting within a gallery environment, participants living with dementia were facilitated on a one-to-one basis the opportunity to paint alongside the researcher. During the workshops, a number of experiences were articulated. These included experiences of illness, crisis, and loss. They were captured through observations, interviews, visual art, and video to contribute to new understandings and models of engagement through art for people living with dementia and their carers. Focusing on theory and practice in arts-based research and the social sciences, this article investigates the potential of painting to unlock experiences such as disenfranchised grief for people living with dementia. The conclusions of this article do not measure how and if participants felt disenfranchised grief but rather provide an alternative to augment the body of knowledge surrounding how people living with dementia can communicate feelings of disenfranchised grief through painting. © The Author(s) 2018. |
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| It was noted within this research that all participants anxiety decreased throughout the session. . | Our lives are improved by having a network of social connections, for example, art groups, clubs, and associations which are of benefit in times of need (Thompson & Doka, 2017). . | Research needs not only to address causal relationships but also to investigate a deeper understanding of how arts practices function to promote well-being. . | Museums and galleries are increasingly becoming socially engaged spaces that tackle human challenges with public audiences. . | This article builds upon good practice established by this research and demonstrates on a small scale how being immersed in painting can access disenfranchised grief for four people living with dementia, contributing to evidence of the positive benefits of Arts in Health more generally. . | Art helps us connect with personal, subjective emotions, and through such a process, it enables us to discover our own interior landscape. . | Engagement in the creative process can help develop knowledge and understanding about how these feelings represent the processes of loss and grief and can through facilitating provision of an outlet that can explore how the loss effects an individual through recognition of that loss and grief as it is encountered. . | Art-based research can be defined as the systematic use of the artistic process, the actual making of artistic expressions in all of the different forms of the arts, as a primary way of understanding and examining experience by both researchers and the people that they involve in their studies. . | The presence of the artist researcher as witness helped restore confidence and placed them in a more relaxed frame of mind, opening them up to the creativity within them. . | Meaning emanates through the creative process ability to provide an outlet for the artists own expression (Mcniff, 2008). . | It is possible that this skewed the findings and that another sample of people would not show such an engagement with the painting. . |
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