WISE Network Resources
The full list of resources on arts & ageing, including those developed by Age & Opportunity, can be found on Arts Resource Page.
Directories and Useful Contacts
List of Arts Officers and their Contacts , Arts Council.
Arts & Health Organisations Directory , Arts + Health.
Creative Communities Officer List , Creative Ireland.
Resource Pages
Age & Opportunity Arts Resources Webpage, Age & Opportunity.
Arts + Health Website, Arts + Health.
Toolkits, Guides and Training
Calculating your Daily Rate, VAI, 2025
A Guide for Care Settings: Engaging an Artist and Sourcing Funding, infographic, Age & Opportunity, 2024.
Guidelines for Artists Pay, CREATE, 2023.
Toolkit on Evaluating Arts and Creativity Programmes for Older Adults, Institute of Public Health, 2024.
Evaluation for Arts, Culture and Heritage: Principles and Practice with University of Leeds, Centre for Cultural Value.
Social Practice Toolkit, SocialPracticeToolkit.com
WHO Resource on Arts Practice and the Ethics of Care, Jameel Arts & Health Lab and the World Health Organization, 2023.
A Toolkit for Arts & Creativity in Care Settings , Age & Opportunity, 2022.
Guidelines for working with Older People and the Arts, 2006.
Mind Your Language, Age & Opportunity.
Dementia Resources
HSeLand Training for Working with Vulnerable Adults
Literature, Film & Podcasts
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway, An Introduction to the Arts, Age & Opportunity,2022.
Naomi Feil: Validation, Communication Through Empathy, Ted Talk, 2015.
The Creative Arts in Palliative Care edited by Nigel Hartley and Malcolm Payne, 2008.
A Little Unsteadily into the Light edited by Jan Carson & Jane Lugea, 2022.
What I Wish People Knew About Dementia by Wendy Mitchell, 2022.
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande, 2014.
Darkness in the Afternoon, Short Film on Dementia, 1998.
Power Up, CPP case study on what we mean by offering people access to culture, Chrissie Tiller, 2017.
Listening with Les Back, , and
Resources on Consent & Participation
Consent, Confidentiality & Decision Making in Arts and Health Participatory Practice, Arts & Health, 2014.
Tracing Autonomy, Kirsty Stansfield and Jeni Pearson in collaboration with Prof. Ben Colburn.
Lundy Model of Participation, 2015.
Template Anam Beo Media Release Form, Anam Beo.
Information on the Assisted Decision Making Act 2015, Alzheimers Society of Ireland.
Further Resources
Minding Creative Minds Support Resource for Artists, Minding Creative Minds.
Arts Council Strategy 2015-2025, Arts Council.
Treasury of Arts Activities for Older People, The Baring Foundation.
What Does an Arts and Health Organisation Do? , Flinders University, 2024.
Garda Vetting, Create.
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