O'Connor, CMC;
Poulos, RG;
Heldon, M;
Preti, C;
Beattie, E;
Poulos, CJ;
(2025)
Implementation of an Arts at Home program for people living with dementia: Learnings from key stakeholders.
Health Promotion Journal of Australia
, 36
(1)
, Article e897. 10.1002/hpja.897.
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Abstract
Issue Addressed: This study explores experiences of people with dementia and family carers who participated in an Arts on Prescription at Home (AoP@Home) program, artists who delivered the AoP@Home program and the managers who coordinated the AoP@Home programs. Methods: Semi structured interviews were conducted with the three stakeholder groups to explore experiences around implementation of AoP@Home. Interview questions were specific to each stakeholder group, and designed to capture the varied experiences around coordinating, delivering and participating in AoP@Home programs when delivered as a standard service offering. Qualitative content analysis was applied to evaluate the transcripts. Results: A total of 13 stakeholders participated in interviews: four people living with dementia and four family carers, three artists and two AoP program managers. Three overarching themes emerged across the stakeholder groups: ‘what worked well’, ‘challenges’ and ‘moving forward’. Conclusions: AoP@Home has potential as an important offering for community-dwelling people with dementia who may no longer be able to access group-based community programs. As AoP@Home is expanded, ongoing implementation monitoring and quality improvement will be essential to ensure maximal applicability of the program across the community aged care sector. So What?: The implementation of a new AoP@home service has been examined, and finds consumer satisfaction (person with dementia and their carer), and support from staff (artists and program managers). The novel nature of the service, however, requires considerable work to educate service referrers about the service and its benefits.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Implementation of an Arts at Home program for people living with dementia: Learnings from key stakeholders |
| Location: | Australia |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/hpja.897 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/hpja.897 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Health Promotion Journal of Australia published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Australian Health Promotion Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
| Keywords: | arts programs, dementia, implementation, informal carers, service development, Humans, Dementia, Caregivers, Interviews as Topic, Qualitative Research, Female, Male, Art Therapy, Aged, Home Care Services, Stakeholder Participation, Middle Aged |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10214887 |
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