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27 September 2017

The role of local authorities and creative ageing

David Cutler
David Cutler introduces a new report on the contribution local authorities can make to ensuring that older people can age as creatively as they deserve.
Blog post: Arts
23 May 2018

Arts and culture are vital threads in the fabric of living

Sir Nick Serota
In Dementia Awareness Week, Nick Serota says we must make sure that these threads are sustained through later life.
Blog post: Arts
10 January 2023

The benefits of creativity for care staff

David Cutler
Bringing arts and creativity into care settings can benefit everyone. David Cutler reflects on the benefits for care staff.
Blog post: Arts
4 March 2016

Dementia and imagination

Janet Morrison
Creative approaches help us challenge our conventional notions of engagement with people with dementia.
Blog post: Arts
26 November 2018

Saitama Gold Theatre – leading the world in ambition for creative ageing

David Cutler
David Cutler is inspired by a visit to the World Gold Theatre festival last month in Saitama, Japan.
Blog post: Arts
2 January 2019

Final reflections on the Civil Society Futures inquiry

Julia Unwin, Civil Society Futures
Julia Unwin, Chair of Civil Society Futures (the Independent Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society), offers some reflections following the launch of the Inquiry's findings in November.
Blog post: Independent Inquiry into the future of civil society
19 February 2020

Art is a map back to yourself: Dolly Sen on the launch of Creatively Minded

Artist Dolly Sen makes the case for the role of creativity in the lives of people with mental health problems to launch our new report - Creatively Minded: an initial mapping study of participatory arts and mental health activity in the UK.
Blog post: Arts
13 July 2020

Clinging on in a tsunami

François Matarasso
Arts and health projects are vital in helping people cope and recover from the pandemic and its consequences - but the DCMS rescue package - welcome though it is - may not reach the small organisations and artists who do this work.
Blog post: Arts
4 October 2024

Creatively Minded and becoming a parent

A lot of new and expectant mums experience perinatal mental health issues to some degree, but arts interventions for them are relatively rare. Here are some of the ones we know about.
Blog post: Arts
22 December 2015

New guidance makes NICE end to the year

David Cutler
The inclusion in NICE Guidance Number 32 of the importance of the arts to older people's wellbeing is a welcome Christmas present
Blog post: Arts