Siamsa Hosts Innovative Programme To Promote Creativity In Older People

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Care workers, community volunteers, HSE staff and those interested in working with older people in care settings and community groups, were among those attending the Creative Exchanges training programme in Siamsa Tire last week.

AGE & Opportunity’s innovative Creative Exchanges training programme is being delivered in Tralee for the first time, with 25 participants taking part in the first session on Thursday last at Siamsa Tíre.

Age & Opportunity is the national organisation that works to inspire and to create opportunities so that Irish people can live healthy and fulfilling lives as they age.

Creative Exchanges is a QQI accredited course for anyone leading creative activities with older people in care settings, and for those interested in working with older people.

Participants develop the skills and confidence needed to plan and facilitate arts activities for older people in either residential or day care settings.

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This is the first time that the training is being offered in Kerry and is made possible through funding from the Department of Health and Pobal, as part of Kerry’s involvement in the Healthy Ireland plan, and with the support of Siamsa Tíre Home to the National Folk Theatre of Ireland.

Care workers, community volunteers, HSE staff and those interested in working with older people in care settings and community groups, were among those attending the Creative Exchanges training programme in Siamsa Tire last week.

Creative Exchanges in Kerry is being delivered in Siamsa Tíre, Tralee over seven one-day sessions, starting last Thursday.

The course brings together practitioners from different arts disciplines to discuss different approaches and to lead participants in arts activity.

Those taking part will have access to Irish experts in the field such as artists Marie Brett, Tom Meskell, Gillian McCarthy, Julie Tiernan and arts educator Bairbre Ann Harkin from the Butler Gallery.

Among the participants are care workers, community volunteers, HSE staff and those interested in working with older people in care settings and community groups.

This new initiative will bring a whole new level of creativity into the lives of people in nursing homes and community groups in Kerry by providing the learning and development in relation to guiding creative activities in care settings.

Mixing theory, regulations and practical creative work, participants will be able to bring their learning back to their own nursing home or community group, so that people can feel the benefits straight away.

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