Creative activities can improve the health and wellbeing of people who use social care services across the life course, from creative works that explore the experiences of young people leaving care to arts activities in care home settings. Creative health can support people in care and community settings, addressing social isolation and loneliness, improving mental health and wellbeing and helping to manage long-term conditions. There are opportunities for creative health to help tackle some of the challenges facing the social care system as part of an integrated and person-centred approach to care.
This online roundtable was hosted on Thursday 26th January 2023, and explored:
- The ways in which creative health can benefit the health and wellbeing of people who access social care across (including the benefits for the social care workforce)
- How creative health can help to address the challenges facing social care
We heard from a range of speakers covering research, practice, policy and lived experience and there was an opportunity for audience Q&A.
The session was chaired by Professor Martin Green OBE, NCCH trustee and Chief Executive of Care England, and speakers included: Tom Craig, Community and Learning Producer, with Plus One Composer Lucy James, Plus One, Derby Theatre; Lucinda Jarrett, Rosetta Life, and Anndeloris Chacon, Bristol Black Carers; Douglas Noble, Strategic Director of Adult Social Care and Healthcare, Live Music Now, with Shona Bradbury, Manager, and Tracey Judd, Lead Lifestyle Coordinator at Appleby House Care Home; Arti Prashar, Artist and Consultant; The Southbank Centre Arts & Wellbeing Team - Jessica Santer, Head of Creative Learning with Bernadette Russell, storyteller and author, lead artist on the Skylark Cafe project; Karen Culshaw, Policy Manager, Adult Social Care, Care Quality Commission (CQC); David Cutler, Director, The Baring Foundation; Grace Meadows, Campaign Director, Music for Dementia; Liz Jones, Policy Director, National Care Forum; Edna Petzen, Specialist Marketing and Communication Consultant to the Adult Social Care sector.
Agenda and Speaker Biographies
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The Creative Health Review
This roundtable is the second in a series running throughout the year as part of the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) and All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPG) Creative Health Review. The review will highlight the potential for creative health to help tackle pressing issues in health and social care and more widely, including health inequalities and the additional challenges we face as we recover from Covid-19. A panel of commissioners, with a wide breadth of expertise, will translate the findings from roundtables and a public call for contributions into recommendations for policymakers to encourage and inform the development of a cross-governmental creative health strategy.
We also welcome your participation in the review.
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