Distanced Arts: Investigating the design, delivery, and impacts of Entelechy Arts' Staying Connected Programme

与冠状病毒大流行相关的持续担忧（严重疾病、不断变化的距离限制、第二波大流行）增加了社交孤立的风险（减少与朋友和/或家人的接触;失去关系、被社会排斥），这可能对健康和福祉产生不成比例的负面影响，尤其是在老年人中。鉴于疫情发展过程的不确定性，需要帮助老年人保持联系的远程解决方案。该项目将与Entelechy Arts合作，从服务提供商和用户的角度考虑一种这样的解决方案，即远程艺术干预-保持联系。在两个工作包（WP）中，我们将使用半结构化访谈来了解服务提供商的（工作人员、艺术家、志愿者）体验远程艺术设计和交付（n=15; WP 1），并进行纵向定量调查（6个月内的2个时间点）评估参与者的隔离、健康、参与“保持联系”项目（远程广播节目（n=30）、创意活动箱（n = 30）、唱诗班（n=16）和其他活动组（编织、诗歌; n=10）; WP 2）后，成果和产出包括一份实践报告，概述了为寻求设计和提供远程艺术的服务提供者提供的指导方针和建议，一个与相关利益攸关方分享实践经验的虚拟研讨会，（艺术组织，议会，社区成员，政府），一份影响报告，详细介绍了保持联系计划对老年人的孤立，健康和福祉的影响，一次虚拟传播活动，与相关利益攸关方分享影响力调查结果，两份手稿将在影响力大的学术期刊上发表。

On-going concerns related to the coronavirus pandemic (severe illness, changing distancing restrictions, second-wave of pandemic) present an increased risk for social isolation (reduced contact friends and/or family; loss of relationships, exclusion from society), which can have a disproportionately negative impact on health and well-being particularly among older adults. Given the uncertainty around the course of the pandemic, remote solutions that help older adults to stay connected are needed. In collaboration with Entelechy Arts, this project will consider one such solution, a distanced arts intervention - Staying Connected - from the perspective of service providers and users. Across two work packages (WP) we will use semi-structured interviews to understand service providers' (staff, artists, volunteers) experiences of distanced arts design and delivery (n=15; WP1), and conduct a longitudinal quantitative survey (2 time-points over 6 months) assessing whether there are changes in participants' isolation, health, and well-being as a results of taking part in Staying Connected's programmes (remote radio show (n=30), creative activity boxes (n=30), choir (n=16), and other activity clusters (knitting, poetry; n=10); WP2). Deliverables and outputs include a practice report outlining guidelines and recommendations for service providers who seek to design and deliver distanced arts, a virtual workshop to share the learning about practice with relevant stakeholders (arts organisations, councils, community members, government), an impact report detailing the effects of Staying Connected programme's on older adults' isolation, health and well-being, a virtual dissemination event to share the impact findings with relevant stakeholders, and two manuscripts for publication in high-impact academic journals.