Creative Arts Therapy in Aged Care
- We deliver onsite, out reach and online.
Creative arts therapy in aged care can support older adults to reflect and process experiences of loss and loneliness and improve communication and connection with those around them. Creative arts therapy can be used to complement traditional health treatments and can reduce stress and anxiety, process feelings and manage emotions. Creative arts therapy can include painting, drawing, sculpting, drama, dance and movement to improve seniors’ overall wellbeing, while decreasing the levels of depression, anxiety and need for medication. Creative arts therapy in aged care is increasingly being used to support older adults and people with a range of disabilities connect and communicate their inner and outer feelings and experiences, and connect with others.
Research into creative arts therapy, aged care and dementia readily acknowledges the benefit of creative arts therapies in the mental, social and physical wellbeing of older people. Creatives art therapies has been recognised as contributing to older adults health and wellbeing by providing:
- Positive emotional responses
- Reducing agitation
- Improvements to social participation and interactions
- Changes to cognitive processes
- Increased verbal fluency
- Improved fine motor skills, physical coordination, strength and balance
- Daily functioning improvements
- Improved mood and attention span
- Less stress (caregivers and receivers alike)
- Elevated quality of life
CATA’s registered creative arts therapists currently provide therapeutic group programs to older adults at Fronditha Care’s Residential Aged Care locations in Clayton, Templestowe, Thornbury and St Albans.
If you’d like to learn more about our creative arts therapy services, and how it might benefit your aged care organisation please connect with us today.
CONNECT WITH US: Ph: (03) 8414 0171 | E: info@cata.org.au
We Deliver Our Services Onsite, Outreach and Telehealth