52 accessible and creative activities for everyone working with older people.
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Toolkit
A Choir in Every Care Home
Live Music Now
Launched in May 2015, A Choir in Every Care Home is an initiative to explore how music and singing can feature regularly in care homes across the country.
The Toolkit for Care Homes, aimed at care homes and musicians, provides practical tips and advice on how to bring music into the lives of care home residents.
Watch 5 videos made by Live Music Now on how to lead a music session.
The Best Words in the Best Order
Courtyard
This toolkit produced by Courtyard Arts is designed to support
poets, care staff or anyone interested in running a dementia poetry project.
Arts Toolkit for Activity Co-ordinators and Care Staff
Arts Derbyshire
Arts Derbyshire Toolkit is aimed at staff and Activity Co-ordinators in care settings, wishing to plan and deliver arts projects. This Toolkit was produced as part of the ‘Music in Care Homes’ project which took place in 2010 and 2011. It includes information on funding, recruiting artists, promoting projects and evaluation.
A Pocket Guide to Arts Activities for People with Dementia
Collective Encounters
This toolkit produced by Collective Encounters was the result of three years of creative work in Merseyside with the carers of people living with dementia.
Contains resources and guidance on how to use the arts to engage more effectively with people who are living with dementia.
Dance Magic Dance Toolkit
Courtyard Hereford Creative Ageing Toolkit for creative dance in residential care settings. Includes: guidelines for leading group dance sessions; ideas for seated exercises and resource suggestions.
Singing for Older Peoples’ Health and Well-being Toolkit
Arts for Health Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Arts for Health Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Singing for Well-being toolkit was developed following feedback from clients and care staff. A training resource that supports staff and carers to organise and run singing sessions, which are sustainable, affordable and fun.
City Arts
Don’t be Afraid to Dance – a guide intended to be used by health professionals, activity co-ordinators and care staff and is the starting point for developing basic movement and dance activities with older people.
Arts in Care Homes
Penny Allen, The Baring Foundation
The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance
Age UK
The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance is a national organisation representing everyone who believes that cultural engagement can transform our health and wellbeing.
Their website has a section containing toolkits and factsheets on evaluation, commissioning, social prescribing, and guides to developing arts and culture projects.