ARTS AND WELLBEING STATS
Wellbeing: Is health & happiness. It is an
environment to enable people to function well.
Both Hedonistic ( instant pleasure and happiness and
opportunistic) and Eudemonic ( opportunities for people o reach and have their
potential and encourage to have goals set.)
CQC Highly regard spending time purposefully and
enjoyably doing things that bring pleasure and meaning and believe
participatory arts can support and enable elements of choice and control, over
day-to day and significant life decisions. Maintaining good relationships with
family, partners, friends, staff and others..
NICE Highlight the importance of structured group
activities cognitive stimulation programmes, therapeutic activities, tailored
interventions. The arts evidence the support and assist and enhance each of
these provisions.
Creative Health: The Arts for Health and
Wellbeing report 2017
Art as : A creative impulse that is fundamental to the experience
of being human, it can be expressed through art, creative writing, painting,
dance, poetry, drama, voice, digital media, gardening, cooking, getting dressed
– fashion. It is the act of creating something or the appreciation of it. It is something that provides an individual
experience that can have a positive effect on our physical and mental health
and wellbeing.
1. Visual and performing arts in healthcare environments
help to reduce sickness, anxiety and stress.
2. A mental health recovery centre co-designed by service
users in Wales is estimated to save the NHS £300k per year.
3. The heart rate of new-born babies is calmed by the
playing of lullabies. The use of live music in neonatal intensive care. leads to considerably reduced hospital stays.
4. Participatory Arts Programmes: This refers to individual and group
arts activities intended to improve and maintain health and wellbeing in health
and social care settings and community locations. £1 spent on early care and education has been calculated to save up to
£13 in future costs. Participatory arts activities with children improve their
cognitive, linguistic, social and emotional development and enhance school
readiness.
5. After engaging with the arts 79% of people in deprived
communities in London ate more healthily. 77% engaged in more physical activity
and 82 % enjoyed greater wellbeing.
6. Art therapies: This refers to drama, music and
visual arts activities offered to individuals, usually in clinical settings, by
any of 3,600 practitioners accredited by the Health and Care Professions
Council. Arts therapies help people
to recover from brain injury and diminish the physical and emotional suffering
of cancer patients and the side effects of their treatment.
7. Music therapy reduces agitation and need for
medication in 67% of people with a Dementia.
8.
Arts therapies have
been found to alleviate anxiety, depression and stress while increasing
resilience and wellbeing.
9. Art on Prescription: Part
of social prescribing, this involves people experiencing psychological or
physical distress being referred (or referring themselves) to engage with the
arts in the community (including galleries, museums and libraries).
10. An arts-on-prescription project has shown a 37% drop
in GP consultation rates and 27% reduction in hospital admissions. This
represents a saving of £216 per patient.
A social return on investment of between £4 and £11 has been calculated
for every £1 invested in arts on prescription.
11. Over the past two centuries,
life expectancy has
increased by two years every decade, meaning that half of people being born in
the West can expect to reach 100. Arts participation is a vital part of healthy
ageing.
12. Participatory arts activities help to alleviate
anxiety, depression and stress both within and outside of work.
13. Medical Training and Medical Humanities: This refers
to inclusion of the arts in the formation and professional development of
health and social care professionals.
Within the NHS, some 10 million working days are lost to sick leave
every year, costing £2.4bn. Arts engagement helps health and care staff to
improve their own health and wellbeing and that of their patients.
14. Everyday Creativity: This might be drawing, painting,
pottery, sculpture, music, singing or handcraft. ( or creative
interventions). There are more than
49,000 amateur arts groups in England involving 9.4 million people in this,
that’s only 17% of the population.
15. Cultural Engagement reduces work-related stress and
leads to longer, happier lives.
16. Out of 2500 museums and galleries in the UK only 600
have programmes targeting health and wellbeing at the moment.
17. The Built and Natural Environments: Poor-quality built
environments have a damaging effect upon health and wellbeing of staff and
service users.
18. 85% of people in England agree that the quality of the
built environment influences the way we feel.
19. Every £1 spent on maintaining parks has been seen to
generate £34 in community benefits.
20. Children born into families at the lower end of the
social gradient are more vulnerable to heart disease, mental health problems,
obesity, respiratory disease and stroke than their more affluent
contemporaries.
21. UK and combined authorities in England are
increasingly using arts-based strategies to address the social determinants in
health.
22. Chapter 6-8 of this report show how arts engagement
can lesson the impact of health inequalities at each life stage.
23. There is scientific evidence now showing that the arts
involvement can contribute to overcoming social isolation, inequalities, reduce
and mitigate bad nutrition, bad mental health, shapes learning, enables self
esteem and self expression, promotes human development. It can extend life
expectancy, enhance the quality of the environment and contribute to giving a
sense of place. It plays a significant role in preventing illness and
infirmity., enhances wellbeing, and
quality of life for all ages. It can help many challenges in the health and
care system improving the humanity, value for money and overall effectiveness
of this complex system of care. Dance can prevent falls. Artistic engagement
can reduce the experience of pain and develop hopeful narratives. Create a
homely environment.
24. The arts and creative impulse can prompt access to
natural daylight, fresh air and natural materials that aid healing., restore
the integrity between mind, body and soul.
25. The contribution of the arts to person-centered, place
based care urgently needs to be recognized.
26. The participatory arts provide a prime site for
co-production, equal involvement by people using services and people
responsible for them, nt only in design and delivry but also in evaluation and
refinement.
27. Government has committed to improving
access to prevention and early intervention. Supported by compelling evidence,
we advocate that the arts are taken seriously in helping to overcome the
impediments to prevention and early intervention
28. Working-Age Adulthood
Poor-quality work combines high demand and
effort with low control and reward. The main cause of sickness absence from
work is anxiety, depression and stress, and mental health problems in the under
65s account for almost half of NHS diagnoses. Arts engagement at work and in
leisure time helps to overcome anxiety, depression and stress.
29. In relation to recovery from illness in
adults, there is good evidence that listening to music after a stroke helps to
hasten recovery and lift mood. When it comes to the management of long-term
conditions, dancing and group singing enhance cognition, communication and
physical functioning in people with Parkinson’s while enhancing wellbeing.
Singing alleviates chronic respiratory conditions and cystic fibrosis. Arts
engagement also has a part to play in diminishing the physical and emotional
effects of heart disease and cancer.
30. In the criminal justice system, the arts
provide an excellent tool for the healthy expression of suppressed emotions and
the processing of experiences, while art therapy provides an effective
non-verbal means of accessing painful memories for people experiencing
post-traumatic stress.
31. Despite many proven benefits, the arts are
not a habitual part of the training and professional development of health and
social care professionals. There is, however, increasing recognition of the
contribution of the arts to the committed, compassionate care advocated by the
Francis Inquiry and envisaged in the 2014 Care Act. We identify a need for the
arts and humanities to become more integrated into health and social care training
and for health and wellbeing to be included in the professional development of
artists.
32. Older Adulthood Within the growing population of adults
beyond working age, health inequalities affect vitality, mobility, mental
acuity and life expectancy. The arts have a part to play in fostering healthy
ageing and staving off frailty. As in previous life stages, arts engagement can
diminish anxiety, depression and stress while also increasing self-esteem,
confidence and purpose. Music training can improve differentiation of sounds,
such as voices in busy environments.
Danceisparticularlyeffectiveinthepreventionof falls in older people, and dance
programmes up and down the country have better retention rates than alternative
NHS initiatives.
33. Social participation by older people can
have a protective effect on health comparable to giving up smoking. Arts-based
groups offer a popular social activity in rural areas, while many museums and
galleries in urban areas are reaching out to their local populations, particularly
isolated older adults.
34. An estimated 850,000 older people in the
UK have a dementia diagnosis, predicted to increase to one million by 2021 and
two million by 2051. The annual cost of dementia to the UK is £26.3bn, which is
more than the combined cost of treating cancer, heart disease and stroke and is
expected to exceed £50bn over the next three decades. The arts can provide
significant help in meeting this major health challenge. Arts engagement can
boost brain function and improve the recall of personal memories; it can also
enhance the quality of life of people with dementia and their carers. In
dementia care, colour, reflection and shadow can have an impact on mood and
lead to better nutrition, hydration and engagement.
35. End of Life Around 500,000 people die in England every
year, usually after a phase of chronic illness. The participatory arts and arts
therapies can offer physical, psychological, spiritual and social support to
people facing death. They can assuage the pain and anxiety of terminal illness
and assist people in coming to terms with dying. They can help people to find
meaning in the story of their lives and develop hopeful narratives. They can
provide access to deep, nuanced feelings, communicated through metaphor and
imagery. They can form part of a legacy, through the creation of artworks to be
shared with loved ones. They can give voice to those who no longer feel able to
speak and restore a sense of control to those who feel powerless.
36. In end-of-life care, homely environments
for the dying, grieving areas for the bereaved, religious and cultural places
and quiet spaces for visitors and staff are in high demand. The arts can
transform the capacity to cope with bereavement and open up a healthier public
conversation about death.
Creative credible: evaluation of art projects: Winchester University .
24th April 2019
1. Project happening more and more that prove art decreases agitation and challenging
behaviors.
2. The importance of evaluation makes the artwork
stronger, proves its viability. Validate.
Assess if artwork is appropriate and a positive experience, works to
further develop future projects,
showcases learning and development,
contributes to understanding
needs, helps to generate new knowledge to a wider population. Can contribute to
a wider context and be evidence to researchers.
Evaluations can develop cross-disciplinary conversations and expand
context into other fields of enquiry and research. Evaluating can help develop further
frameworks for planning. It can provide evidence to funders, for funders. Evaluations can support advocacy and convince
people its worth paying for. Evaluations
can measure what needs to change.
Evaluations can help set aims
Art-Lift
is a primary care based art intervention where health professionals refer
patients for a ten week art programme, usually delivered in a primary care
setting. Patients
are referred for a range
of reasons (to reduce stress, anxiety or depression; to improve self esteem or
confidence; to increase social networks; alleviate symptom of chronic pain or
illness; distract from behaviour related health issues; improve overall
wellbeing). The ten week intervention involves art activities delivered by
eight artists within GP surgeries, including working with words, ceramics,
drawing, mosaic and painting.
It was funded by Arts
Council England (South West) with
some match funding from
Gloucestershire County Council and one of the
primary care trusts.15
artist residencies in GP surgeries, mental health
and hospital settings
were created, with artists drawn from a range of
forms including visual
arts, ceramics and creative writing.
Some of the Outcomes:
1.There were high
attendance and completion rates for patients,
when compared with other
primary care based health referral
programmes such as
exercise referral schemes.
2.For those that
completed, there was a significant improvement in
wellbeing after ten weeks
of art sessions. The significant
improvement in wellbeing
from the pre- and post- WEMWBS data
was from a sample size of
84; a larger sample size than other
published arts for health
project evaluations to date.
3.Referrers’ interviews
confirmed that Art Lift is perceived as a
valuable resource for
health professionals and felt it should be a
commissioned service. Art
Lift was deemed a useful service for
certain patients groups
in primary care, and it helped health
professionals respond
with a holistic approach to health problems.
1.
24%
reduction on GP visits in two years.
2.
A
significant reduction in hospital visits and cost benefits of this were
significant.
3.
The
NHs are looking for sustainable ways to reduce costs.
4.
The
clinical commissioning group have an interest in reducing hospital admissions.
Arts and Dementia REPORT 2013
The benefits and impacts in arts activities
significantly contribute to radical change and help to positively change the
culture within institutions and build relationships with the wider community.
Activities need to be tailored to individual
service users.
Age of Creativity Festival 1-31st May 2019
Celebrating older creative audiences, participants, volunteers and
artists across England. Led by ageUK
1.
Bringing together 64 million artsits to do
creative challenges in partnership with older people.
2.
They are asking “ What if artists became
activists against ageism”?
3.
I am asking What if Artists became activists
against boredom, against the stigma of Dementia and mobility?
The value of
professional artists:
Susanna Howard (Living Words) and Elly Wilson
Wickenden (Creative Arts East) highlight the pivotal role that professional
artists have in arts-based practices for people living with dementia.
Hear as they explain how artists possess a
unique set of skills that facilitate those that they work with to express
themselves, without creating a sense of being wrong - which is often liberating
for those living with dementia.
Arts helps us to hear the voice of people with
dementia
John Killick the poet has spent decades
sitting alongside people with dementia and helping them to communicate in any
way possible. We may struggle to understand the poems but there is no doubting
the way in which ideas, feelings and emotions are expressed show that the person
is still there6. In the absence of speech, people with dementia can
be encouraged to communicate in many different ways; playing the cello to a
person with dementia facing the end of her life Claire Garabadian noted imperceptible eye movements
as she drew her bow back and forth.
Arts
challenge stigma Today tens of thousands of people with dementia and
their carers are involved in projects and programmes led by professional arts
practitioners in arts and community centres, in the NHS and social care or in
arts venues including theatres, museums, galleries that are becoming dementia
friendly6. This creativity is addressing stigma and helping to
transform cultural perceptions of dementia.
“I think we're entering a really new
interesting period with cultural commissioning, more and more councils across
the country taking that and wanting to have arts practices and social
proscribing to improve people's well-being…. it's an inquiry, it's a process,
and we're developing as artists in this field….. But what we are doing is a
practice in and of itself…… Professional, high quality arts experience is
absolutely at the core of what we do. And in terms of why it needs to be
professional, I think it's because of the skill set and the experience, and that
allowing of people living with dementia to be creative. Artists have a unique
set of skills, I think, that are completely different to a teacher-- certainly
a dentist-- that are about enabling a person to express themselves in a way
that maybe allows them to take risks or to explore their sense of self without
the fear of being wrong or without there needing to be a kind of correct
answer, which is really liberating for people living with dementia, who can
often avoid situations where there is a right or wrong in case they get it
wrong”.
David Cutler (The Baring
Foundation)
highlights some of the issues that surrounds future provision of arts services
and practices for the health and wellbeing of our ageing society, which
inevitably includes people living with dementia. actually things are getting worse. The
support that we can hope for from local authorities is reducing because of
financial pressures. So I also see quite a concerning picture of reductions in
budgets in precisely the areas that we need. So I'm afraid my crystal ball is
pretty misty at this moment. I think the thing that's completely clear is that
we have to retain attention and consistent pressure and thought about the area
of creative ageing with people with dementia.
And we shouldn't take it as inevitable that practice will continue to
improve.
