Care homes: Walking through Walls development
IDEAS
NARRATIVES
Issues and facts
OUTSIDE FACING
GROUND UP
'Aesthetics of care'
Mental health and well-being of residents, staff and relatives
City planning, environmental issues, buildings, care homes as community hubs
Access to nature
The 'right to roam'
Making walls porous.
Access to common spaces. Sites for culture expanding to include local squares, pubs...
Stories to hold loss, grief, transitions and thresholds
Notions of Home
Baring foundation - mental health for artists/care home community
What informs our care home strategy
Other partners
Burn out of staff and PTS
Institutional and task orientated settings
care homes now double up as respite for young people and hospice or palliative care
Small acts of kindness as choreography
hyper local - universal
spirituality and art
An actual Entelechy hub/office base in a care home there 5 days a week
Music, vibration and strokes
Human rights: Using theatre, forum theatre, songwriting to tell difficult stories
What works from our last 12 years in care homes and feedback
involving residents with dementia in evaluation meetings
Residents joining our Albany Tea Dances
Ambient Jam approach in palliative care. working with sense, presence and touch
In house site specific care home 21st C Tea Dances
Workshops for care staff
Involving family and different generations
Uncovering 'emerging artists'
'Incredible Journeys'
Art into debate
Mixing all artforms
Supporting our artists with ongoing salons and reflective thinking spaces.
Covid 19 and other infections
Often staff shortages
Residents dealing with chronic pain and lack of access to best GP's or consultants
Massage and feldenkreis
Can artists help us in fundraising
USS funding the building of new types of Alms-housing in Southwark
Dutch model of supported housing
Tavistock Institute are also experts in the social science of care and evaluation
Partnering with the Tavistock on Echo's of Home
Chris Green and Home
Supporting staff morale
Quality of life at end of life
Access to beautiful spaces like Sdds roof top studios