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到改善痴呆症患者生活质量的干预措施的开发中来。艺术活动，例如手工艺工作坊和艺术馆导赏团，被认为是一个有效的方法，让残疾人士有一个创意的出口，增加他们的代理，并重新获得社会认同感。然而，对于实施这些干预措施的艺术家和社会企业来说，很少有关于如何最好地与残疾人士沟通，以最大限度地发挥这些干预措施的效益的培训。IDEAL项目将通过与平等艺术和桑德兰文化的合作伙伴关系来解决这个问题，这两个英国组织提供创造性的老龄化研讨会项目，以支持患有痴呆症相关认知能力下降和由此导致的社会孤立的人。我们会根据拨款前的研究，以及拨款后的成果，推出一项培训服务，包括工作坊和网上培训计划，以突显和确定有效的沟通策略，让残疾人士有意义地参与这些活动。这将包括有效的研讨会活动的例子，更具体地说，沟通策略，如有效的指导和对残疾人工作的有效评估，基于来自一系列场景的现实世界的例子（即，当护理人员在场时，当残疾人没有护理人员时，等等）。在这项研究中，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的合作伙伴一起进行先前的案例研究。探讨工作坊活动的成效，以及为智障人士提供艺术干预的良好沟通方法。通过对艺术研讨会记录的视频分析，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）使用的互动策略，这些策略导致更多的积极参与，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了重要作用，在丹麦和瑞典（2019年）的相关利益相关者和研究中心进行了邀请会谈，在日本（2018年）进行了数据介绍，并在一次领先的国际会议上发表了研究结果（芬兰，2019年）。因此，北大团队获得了下一届非典型互动会议2022，一个著名的国际会议，吸引了来自世界各地的200-300学者，并将代表北大参加英国文化协会在东京组织的RENKEI会议，关于健康老龄化和痴呆症（2021年3月）。拟议项目的研究维度扩展了之前的试点研究（其中一个工作室设置被检查），在英格兰东北部的艺术空间中建立了五个新的工作室设置。这将提供更细致和详细的见解，有效的活动和相关的沟通策略，在这种艺术讲习班设置，这将有助于更有效地告知培训材料。讲习班计划最初将在英格兰东北部交付，并有可能进一步推广，在线培训计划将通过平等艺术（在线或订购硬拷贝）进行更广泛的分发，平等艺术是国际公认的“为老年人和痴呆症患者提供艺术和创意活动的创造性老龄化慈善机构”（equalarts.org.uk/our-work/creative-age）。透过以研究为基础的培训，本计划将改善残疾人士的艺术干预服务质素，从而改善残疾人士及其照顾者的生活质素。

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.