Active Care Homes through the Arts (working title for project)

通过艺术的积极关爱之家是一个项目，旨在通过启发和参与数字艺术内容以及支持工作人员来激励和鼓励居民更多地移动，来提高疗养院居民的活动水平。该项目涉及一个来自多个组织的多技能团队，包括Dance in Devon、伯恩茅斯交响乐团、乡村在行动、Wellmoor和开放大学的数字健康实验室。我们多年来一直在养老院提供参与式舞蹈课程，并一再见证音乐和舞蹈的力量，以支持居民和工作人员一起享受积极和创造性，从而对他们的健康和福祉产生影响。我们还拥有在整个疫情期间及以后为老年人和孤立者提供数字舞蹈和创造性活动课程的经验。我们的建议是创建一个可扩展的解决方案，它将利用我们所有的学习和技能，最近通过新冠肺炎期间的数字交付加速了；通过让护理院工作人员获得有针对性的参与性内容与其居民分享，减轻了护理院工作人员的负担，不断提供引人入胜的活动。我们将构建和测试一种“原型”产品，一个易于使用和访问的数字平台，包含一系列高质量和引人入胜的艺术内容，专门针对护理环境中的老年人缺乏活动，包括痴呆症患者。可行性研究将包括与开放大学数字健康实验室磋商的市场研究和以用户为中心的设计周期。最终的产品很可能会以订阅产品/服务的形式提供，包括一个定制的平台，允许用户从一个随时间增长的内容频道按需访问各种表演和参与内容和活动。这将包括各种内容：旨在增加机动性、力量和平衡以及呼吸功能的简短、引人入胜和鼓舞人心的参与式歌舞；茶舞鼓励社交和享受，同时增加活动水平；以及大型节目之夜，例如适合痴呆症患者的音乐会的现场直播。还将为护理之家的工作人员提供一揽子支持，包括整合更广泛的创意活动的资源和想法。最初专注于5家疗养院，这一模式可能会大规模交付，主要目标是改善英国及其他地区疗养院居民和工作人员的福祉。

Active Care Homes through the Arts is a project targeted at increasing activity levels in residents in care homes through inspiring and engaging digital arts content along with support for the staff to motivate and encourage residents to move more.This project involves a multi-skilled team drawn from across a number of organisations, including Dance in Devon, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Villages in Action, Wellmoor and the Open University's Digital Health Lab.We have been delivering participatory dance sessions in residential care settings for many years and have witnessed over and over the power of music and dance to support residents and staff to enjoy being active and creative together, with the resultant impact on their health and wellbeing. We also have experience delivering digital dance and creative activity sessions with elderly and isolated individuals throughout the pandemic and beyond. Our proposal is to create a scalable solution which will draw on all our learning and skills, accelerated recently through digital delivery during Covid-19; taking the burden away from care home staff to constantly provide engaging activities, by giving them access to targeted participatory content to share with their residents.We will build and test a 'prototype' product, an easy-to-use and accessible digital platform containing a range of high quality and engaging arts content, specifically targeted at tackling inactivity in the elderly in care settings, including those with dementia. The feasibility study will include market research and user-centred design cycles in consultation with The Open University's Digital Health Lab. Most likely the resultant product would be offered as a subscription-based product/service, involving a bespoke platform which allows users to access a variety of performance and participation content and events on demand from a content channel that grows over time.This would include a variety of content strands: short engaging and inspiring participatory singing and dancing sessions targeted at increasing mobility, strength & balance, and respiratory function; tea dances encouraging social connection and enjoyment whilst increasing activity levels; and Big Night In programming eg live streaming of dementia-friendly concerts. There will also be a support package for care home staff, including resources and ideas to integrate wider creative activities. Initially focused on a group of 5 care homes, this model could potentially be delivered at scale, with the key aim of improving the wellbeing of care home residents and staff across the UK and beyond.