Interaction, Dementia and Engagement in Arts for Lifelong Learning (IDEAL)

在过去的几年里，研究人员，政府和社会企业越来越多地参与干预措施的开发，以改善痴呆症患者（PwD）的生活质量。艺术活动，如艺术和手工艺工作坊和艺术画廊导游图尔斯已被确定为一个有效的方法，给残疾人一个创造性的出路，增加代理，并重振社会认同感。然而，对于艺术家和社会企业运行这种干预措施，几乎没有培训如何最好地与PwD沟通，以最大限度地提高这些干预措施的好处。IDEAL项目将通过与Equal Arts和桑德兰文化的合作伙伴关系来解决这一问题，这两个英国组织提供创造性的老龄化研讨会计划，以支持患有痴呆症相关认知能力下降和由此产生的社会孤立的人。根据在获得拨款之前和之后进行的研究，我们将以工作坊和在线培训计划的形式提供培训服务，重点介绍和确定有效的沟通策略，以便残疾人能够以有意义的方式参与这些活动。这将包括有效的研讨会活动的例子，更具体地说，沟通策略，如有效的预防和有效的评估PwD工作，根据现实世界的例子，从一系列的场景（即当照顾者在场，当PwD没有照顾者，等）。在这项研究中，来自纽卡斯尔大学的应用语言学家和社会老年学家正在与桑德兰文化合作伙伴进行的先前案例研究的基础上，调查有效的研讨会活动和良好的交流实践，为痴呆症患者（PwD）进行艺术干预。通过对艺术研讨会录音的视频分析，对语言和非语言行为进行了分析，以确定研讨会主持人（和护理人员）使用的干预策略，从而增加了积极的参与，并使痴呆症患者能够自主地为活动做出贡献。这些见解已与利益相关者组织分享，并在国际研究传播活动中发挥作用，邀请丹麦和瑞典（2019年）的相关利益相关者和研究中心进行演讲，在日本（2018年）进行数据演示，并在领先的国际会议（芬兰，2019年）上发表研究结果。因此，NU团队已被授予下一届2022年非典型互动会议，这是一个着名的国际会议，吸引了来自世界各地的200-300名学者，并将代表NU参加英国理事会在东京举办的RENKEI会议，健康颐年及痴呆症（2021年3月）。建议项目的研究范畴较先前的先导研究有所扩展（其中一个车间设置进行了审查），以五个新的车间设置在整个英格兰东北部的艺术空间。这将为有效的活动提供更细致和详细的见解，以及相关的沟通策略，在这样的艺术工作坊环境中，这将有助于更有效地为培训材料提供信息。工作坊计划最初将在英格兰东北部提供，并有可能进一步推广，在线培训方案将提供（在线和硬拷贝订购），通过平等艺术更广泛地分发，国际公认的“创意老龄慈善机构，为老年人和痴呆症患者提供艺术和创意活动”（equalarts.org.uk/our-work/creative-age）。通过研究知情培训，该项目将提高残疾人艺术干预的质量，从而提高残疾人及其照顾者的生活质量。

Over the past few years, researchers, governments and social enterprises have become increasingly involved in the development of interventions to improve the quality of life for people living with dementia (PwD). Arts activities such as arts & crafts workshops and art gallery guided tours have been identified as one effective way to give PwD a creative outlet, increased agency, and a reinvigorated sense of social identity. However, for the artists and social enterprises running such interventions, there is little available training on how best to communicate with PwD in order to maximise the benefits of these interventions. The IDEAL project will address this through collaborative partnership with Equal Arts and Sunderland Culture, two UK organisations who offer creative ageing workshop programmes to support people living with dementia-related cognitive decline and resulting social isolation. Based on research produced prior to, and as a result of, this funding, we will produce a training service - in the form of workshop packages and an online training programme - which will highlight and identify effective communication strategies for engaging PwD in a meaningful way in these activities. This would include examples of effective workshop activities and, more specifically, communication strategies, such as effective instruction-giving and effective evaluations of PwD work, based on real-world examples from a range of scenarios (i.e. when carers are present, when PwD are without carers, etc.) In this research, applied linguists and social gerontologists from Newcastle University are building on a previous case study carried out with partners at Sunderland Culture, to investigate effective workshop activities and good communicative practices in arts interventions for people living with dementia (PwD). Through video analysis of recordings of arts workshops, language and non-verbal conduct were analysed to identify the interactional strategies that workshop facilitators (and carers) use that result in increased, active participation, and which enable people living with dementia to contribute autonomously to the activity. These insights have been shared with the stakeholder organisation, and have featured in research dissemination activities internationally, with invited talks given in to relevant stakeholders and research centres in Denmark and Sweden (2019), data presentations given in Japan (2018), and findings presented at a leading international conference (Finland, 2019). As a result of this, the NU team has been awarded the next Atypical Interaction Conference 2022, a prestigious international meeting attracting 200-300 scholars from around the world, and will be representing NU at the British Council organised RENKEI meeting in Tokyo, on Healthy Ageing and Dementia (March 2021).The research dimension in the proposed project expands on the previous pilot study (in which one workshop setting was examined) to five new workshop settings in arts spaces across the Northeast of England. This will provide a more nuanced and detailed insight into effective activities, and related communication strategies, in such arts workshop settings, which will help to inform training materials more effectively.The workshop programme will initially be delivered across the Northeast of England, with the potential for further roll-out, and the online training programme will be made available (online and as hard copies to order) for wider distribution through Equal Arts, the internationally recognised "creative ageing charity providing arts and creative activities for older people and those living with dementia" (equalarts.org.uk/our-work/creative-age). Through research-informed training, this project will improve the quality of arts interventions for PwD, which will in turn improve the quality of life for both PwD, and their carers.