Drawing Ageing
Using Participant-Generated Drawing to Explore Older Australians Expectations and Experiences of Ageing in a Retirement Village
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5933640 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evonne Miller (0000-0002-0577-3438, Queensland University of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci12010044 |
| OpenAlex | W4315866004 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article discusses the use of an arts-based visual methodology, drawing, to explore older people's experiences and expectations of ageing in a retirement village. Tactile, generative, and visual, drawing is a quick, inexpensive, and extremely participatory process, which, compared to traditional text-based data, provides rare and compelling insight into conscious and unconscious feelings, emotions, sentiments, and experiences. As part of a broader project exploring life in retirement villages, 12 older adults in their 70s and 80s were asked to sketch their experiences of ageing, as well as their expectations and experiences of retirement village life. Sketches were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis, which revealed that participants drew ageing as both a time for opportunity and enjoyment and decline, while retirement village life very much met their expectations in terms of being a place of fun, friendship, and leisure. While drawing as a method is rarely used in gerontological research, the outcomes of this project demonstrate how it enables the powerful production of evocative, interactive, and memorable imagery, and it should be a greater part of the methodological toolbox
Active ageing · Feeling · Older people · Qualitative research · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Unconscious mind · Aging and Gerontology Research · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Medicine · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology
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| Citations per year | 2 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |