ReviewBMC medicine2022
Tailoring cultural offers to meet the needs of older people during uncertain times: a rapid realist review.
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- How do nature-based interventions increase the resilience of older persons? A best fit framework synthesis.BMC geriatrics · 2026Review
- Delivering Inclusive Cultural Offers for Social Prescribing: A Realist Evaluation Involving Older People From Global Majority Backgrounds and Cultural Sector Providers in the UK.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- Social prescribing for refugee populations: a protocol for a rapid realist review of international evidence.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Digging for Literature on Tailoring Cultural Offers With and for Older People From Ethnic Minority Groups: A Scoping Review.Lifestyle medicine (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
- In what context and by which mechanisms can creative arts interventions improve wellbeing in older people? A realist review protocol.NIHR open research · 2025Article
- Exploring Social Support Strategies and Socio-Cultural Factors Influencing Social Isolation and Loneliness: The Role of Digital Literacy.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Social prescribing for older adults in mainland Portugal: Perceptions and future prospects.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Comparative Analysis of Social Networks in Institutionalized Older Adults versus Aging-in-Place Scenarios.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Understanding and Improving Older People's Well-Being through Social Prescribing Involving the Cultural Sector: Interviews from a Realist Evaluation.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2023Article
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15 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundNon-medical issues (e.g. loneliness, financial concerns, housing problems) can shape how people feel physically and psychologically. This has been emphasised during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially for older people. Social prescribing is proposed as a means of addressing non-medical issues, which can include drawing on support offered by the cultural sector.
methodA rapid realist review was conducted to explore how the cultural sector (in particular public/curated gardens, libraries and museums), as part of social prescribing, can support the holistic well-being of older people under conditions imposed by the pandemic. An initial programme theory was developed from our existing knowledge and discussions with cultural sector staff. It informed searches on databases and within the grey literature for relevant documents, which were screened against the review's inclusion criteria. Data were extracted from these documents to develop context-mechanism-outcome configurations (CMOCs). We used the CMOCs to refine our initial programme theory.
resultsData were extracted from 42 documents. CMOCs developed from these documents highlighted the importance of tailoring-shaping support available through the cultural sector to the needs and expectations of older people-through messaging, matching, monitoring and partnerships. Tailoring can help to secure benefits that older people may derive from engaging with a cultural offer-being distracted (absorbed in an activity) or psychologically held, making connections or transforming through self-growth. We explored the idea of tailoring in more detail by considering it in relation to Social Exchange Theory.
conclusionsTailoring cultural offers to the variety of conditions and circumstances encountered in later life, and to changes in social circumstances (e.g. a global pandemic), is central to social prescribing for older people involving the cultural sector. Adaptations should be directed towards achieving key benefits for older people who have reported feeling lonely, anxious and unwell during the pandemic and recovery from it.
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