LLA CREATIS-Laboratory of Letters, Languages and Arts

A pilot cultural project that integrates culture into the care and life practices of dependent elderly people (Alzheimer's patients in particular), enabling them to live better in the establishment thanks to adapted artistic activities. By requiring a physical effort and/or by soliciting the individual's capacity for imagination and reflection, artistic practices can help in a multi-dimensional care leading to positive changes at different levels: internal to the patient (aesthetic enjoyment of the individual creator and/or receiver, psychic reorganisations linked to creative expression, etc.); external to the patient in his or her relationship with others and therefore, for example, with carers and attendants (new capacities for expression, communicative reorganisations, etc.); symbolic (transformations in subjective and collective representations of the self, the other, a place, etc.). The objective of the project is to scientifically analyze the role that artistic and cultural practices can play on the state of health of dependent elderly people in order to modify the way they are cared, both at home and in care facilities. In order to achieve this objective, the project proposes to observe and analyze the practices already put in place within the framework of the Gerontology department in order to evaluate and improve them and, subsequently, legitimate them as a means of caring for frail or dependent elderly people.