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How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...adults with physical and mental health conditions, to people with age-related reduced mobility and dementia. [Art therapy lesson between young student with Downs Syndrome and a teacher] A wealth of research has investigated the ways in which the brain, and other parts of the body, respond to the arts. Many art forms trigger both intellectual and multi-sensory responses,...
Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?

...care course? Here at OpenLearn we offer a fantastic range of free courses on health and social care. You may also want to take your interest in dementia and health care further by taking an Open University course. Support and information Call the Alzheimer's Society National Dementia Helpline on 0300 222 1122. Visit www.alzheimers.org.uk for more information, advice and...
The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?
Society, Politics & Law

The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?

...adults – lived at home. It provided great flexibility, dividing degree programs into smaller modules, which students could complete sequentially or simultaneously, and by stopping and starting according to their needs. It made heavy use of computers, not initially for teaching but to grade multiple-choice tests and schedule course mailings. Instructors lacked the...
Introducing professional practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing professional practice

...Care Assistant A Ann, a Health Care Assistant, describes a typical day for her A day in the life of a hospital ward: Working in Teams The staff of Ward 29 discuss the importance of working as a team to ensure good patient care and sound medical practice A day in the life of a hospital ward: working with patients The staff on ward 29 talk about their involvement with...
Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?

...adults around them. They also often have a little spending money, and spend more time away from their families. In many countries across Europe they use ‘junk’ food as a way of expressing a teen identity separate from the adult world of healthy eating advice. Of course, these factors don’t apply to all teens – who vary just as adults do. Some focus on health, or...
One minute methods - sampling
Health, Sports & Psychology

One minute methods - sampling

Like the babies in Laura Schultz’s experiments, discover why researchers take care over the generalisations they make. ...Transcript.
Valuing death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death

...Care qualifications. Death is part of life and is something we all need to face; not only our own death, but the deaths of those around us. Yet many of us are unprepared for this major event in our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed us all to more deaths. However, those deaths were likely to be in hospital with few, if any, family or friends close by. In this first...
Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...care for a tree as well as tell stories about its growth over time. The prototype consists of two boxes, one for jewellery and the other for memories. The jewellery contains bio-sensing devices and can be placed anywhere on the body, where it produces haptic and sonic effects based on the signals it receives from sensors attached to the tree, which are in turn responding...