Event Dates: 19, 20 and 21 June 2017
Event Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
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The conference will showcase inspirational practice, policy and the latest research in culture and arts in health and wellbeing. It will discuss the role of arts and creativity in healing, care and wellbeing across the life course. It will encourage discussion and shared learning, facilitating dialogue between researchers, policy makers and practitioners. Conference themes will encompass multiple art forms and will include:
- Reducing inequalities
- Promoting resilience, prevention and early intervention
- Improving mental health and wellbeing
- Creative ageing
- Specific health conditions and care pathways including palliative care
- Community and social development in different international contexts
- Designing for wellbeing – services, environments, products
- Museums, heritage and health
- Developing national and international networks
- Models and frameworks for co-production, commissioning, delivery and evaluation
- Training, education and professional development