Care homes: Walking through Walls development ship

IDEAS

NARRATIVES waiting

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