SOUND, ENVIRONMENT AND AGEING: BRINGING THE OUTSIDE INTO CARE HOMES

声音、环境和老龄化：将外部环境带入疗养院

• 批准号: MR/Y010914/1
• 负责人: Abigail Gardner
• 金额: $ 39.09万
• 依托单位: University of Gloucestershire
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FY010914%2F1
• 关键词: SOUND; ENVIRONMENT; AGEING; BRINGING; OUTSIDE

The research is being carried out with charities that work with older people, to make soundtracks of natural sounds that are then shared with people living in care homes. The project aims to evaluate what the impact of taking these outside sounds into care homes might be on the older people living in such institutional settings. Sounds recorded with the project team of birdsong, sea, rivers, forest walks for example, will be played through special headsets that offer the listener an immersive listening experience that takes them out of the care home, and into the natural world. We estimate, based on previous projects, that there will be affective responses to these sounds that can impact on wellbeing and in consultation with care home workers, older people not living in care homes and care home residents. The potential future applications would be most likely to be an app for use in care home settings.

这项研究是由与老年人合作的慈善机构进行的，他们将自然的声音制作成原声，然后与住在养老院的人分享。该项目旨在评估将这些外部声音带入养老院可能对生活在这种机构环境中的老年人产生的影响。项目团队录制的鸟鸣、大海、河流、森林漫步等声音将通过特殊的耳机播放，为听众提供身临其境的聆听体验，将他们带离养老院，进入自然世界。根据以前的项目，我们估计，这些声音会对健康产生影响，并与养老院工作人员，不住在养老院的老年人和养老院居民协商。潜在的未来应用程序最有可能是在养老院使用的应用程序。