"La evidencia muestra cada vez más que actividades como clubes sociales, arte, baile de salón y jardinería pueden ser más efectivas que las medicinas para algunas personas, y quiero ver un aumento en ese tipo de prescripción social", dijo Hancock . Y mientras que la prescripción social está ganando fuerza en el Reino Unido, numerosos médicos de cabecera y organizaciones de la salud están buscando otras formas impactantes para aprovechar el poder sanador de las artes. Los participantes de "Dance to Health" de Aesop y los miembros del grupo de danza de personas mayores de East London Dance, Leap of Faith, en el Southbank Centre de Londres. Foto de Helen Murray. Cortesía de Aesop. Los participantes de "Dance to Health" de Aesop y los miembros del grupo de danza de personas mayores de East London Dance, Leap of Faith, en el Southbank Centre de Londres. Foto de Helen Murray. Cortesía de Aesop.
Dr. Laura Marshall-Andrews, who has been running Brighton Health and Wellbeing Centre with Dr. Gary Toyne for the past five years, developed the Healing Expressive and Restorative Arts Project (HERA) for her patients. Funded by the Arts Council, the program offers regular workshops and activities in the visual, literary, and performance arts. “People go to their doctor because they don’t know where else to go; they trust their doctor and they’ll just do what the doctor says,” Marshall-Andrews explained. “I believe that it’s a much more sustainable, profound treatment if you prescribe someone a group or a practice or a skill that they can take with them.” She noted that her center’s arts programming, such as a popular singing group on Saturday mornings, has been helpful for a wide range of patients—those with depression, chronic illnesses, or mood and movement disorders, as well as those who are grieving. “A lot of the patients are elderly and that really helps to combat isolation and loneliness,” she added. “We’ve always known one of the primary things is a sense of community and also creativity, creating something, participating in something which is enjoyable and has purpose.” When asked about the impetus behind the greater interest for arts in health today, Marshall-Andrews suggested that there’s a general understanding among GPs that patients’ needs are not being met and NHS resources are lacking. “We’ve had to try and look outside [of NHS] and that everyone’s under pressure,” she said, noting that patients are living much longer, in more isolated environments, and with less community support. “A lot of social change has been medicalized,” she explained, “and we’re starting to realize that and try and do something about it.” Aesop is also grappling with this tension between patient needs and NHS resources. The charity, which broadly sees itself as a bridge-builder between arts organizations and the health system, is seeking to develop sustainable, cost-effective programs that can be funded by the NHS and implemented nationally. “The basic thing we’re trying to do is to create arts programs which are effective and cost-effective, so the health system will actually pay for them because of they are saving the health system money,” Joss said. Its first such program, called Dance to Health, is geared toward preventing the elderly from sustaining falls. It costs the NHS £2.3 billion per year to treat older patients who have experienced debilitating falls, Joss learned. He found that the health system’s response to this problem was a set of boring, repetitive exercises. “And—surprise, surprise—they have a problem getting older people to do them,” Joss said. “We asked ourselves: ‘Can we smuggle those evidence-based exercises into creative, sociable dance activity?’” That’s just what Aesop has done with Dance to Health, which it has begun to implement in collaboration with major dance companies like the Birmingham Royal Ballet and National Dance Company Wales. J
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"La evidencia muestra cada vez más que actividades como clubes sociales, arte, baile de salón y jardinería pueden ser más efectivas que las medicinas para algunas personas, y quiero ver un aumento en ese tipo de prescripción social", dijo Hancock . Y mientras que la prescripción social está ganando fuerza en el Reino Unido, numerosos médicos de cabecera y organizaciones de la salud están buscando otras formas impactantes para aprovechar el poder sanador de las artes.
ResponderEliminarLos participantes de "Dance to Health" de Aesop y los miembros del grupo de danza de personas mayores de East London Dance, Leap of Faith, en el Southbank Centre de Londres. Foto de Helen Murray. Cortesía de Aesop.
Los participantes de "Dance to Health" de Aesop y los miembros del grupo de danza de personas mayores de East London Dance, Leap of Faith, en el Southbank Centre de Londres. Foto de Helen Murray. Cortesía de Aesop.
Dr. Laura Marshall-Andrews, who has been running Brighton Health and Wellbeing Centre with Dr. Gary Toyne for the past five years, developed the Healing Expressive and Restorative Arts Project (HERA) for her patients. Funded by the Arts Council, the program offers regular workshops and activities in the visual, literary, and performance arts.
“People go to their doctor because they don’t know where else to go; they trust their doctor and they’ll just do what the doctor says,” Marshall-Andrews explained. “I believe that it’s a much more sustainable, profound treatment if you prescribe someone a group or a practice or a skill that they can take with them.”
She noted that her center’s arts programming, such as a popular singing group on Saturday mornings, has been helpful for a wide range of patients—those with depression, chronic illnesses, or mood and movement disorders, as well as those who are grieving. “A lot of the patients are elderly and that really helps to combat isolation and loneliness,” she added. “We’ve always known one of the primary things is a sense of community and also creativity, creating something, participating in something which is enjoyable and has purpose.”
When asked about the impetus behind the greater interest for arts in health today, Marshall-Andrews suggested that there’s a general understanding among GPs that patients’ needs are not being met and NHS resources are lacking. “We’ve had to try and look outside [of NHS] and that everyone’s under pressure,” she said, noting that patients are living much longer, in more isolated environments, and with less community support. “A lot of social change has been medicalized,” she explained, “and we’re starting to realize that and try and do something about it.”
Aesop is also grappling with this tension between patient needs and NHS resources. The charity, which broadly sees itself as a bridge-builder between arts organizations and the health system, is seeking to develop sustainable, cost-effective programs that can be funded by the NHS and implemented nationally. “The basic thing we’re trying to do is to create arts programs which are effective and cost-effective, so the health system will actually pay for them because of they are saving the health system money,” Joss said. Its first such program, called Dance to Health, is geared toward preventing the elderly from sustaining falls.
It costs the NHS £2.3 billion per year to treat older patients who have experienced debilitating falls, Joss learned. He found that the health system’s response to this problem was a set of boring, repetitive exercises. “And—surprise, surprise—they have a problem getting older people to do them,” Joss said. “We asked ourselves: ‘Can we smuggle those evidence-based exercises into creative, sociable dance activity?’” That’s just what Aesop has done with Dance to Health, which it has begun to implement in collaboration with major dance companies like the Birmingham Royal Ballet and National Dance Company Wales.
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