SOUND, ENVIRONMENT AND AGEING: BRINGING THE OUTSIDE INTO CARE HOMES

声音、环境和老龄化：将外部环境带入疗养院

• 批准号: MR/Y010914/1
• 负责人: Abigail Gardner
• 金额: $ 39.09万
• 依托单位: University of Gloucestershire
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FY010914%2F1
• 关键词: SOUND; ENVIRONMENT; AGEING; BRINGING; OUTSIDE

The research is being carried out with charities that work with older people, to make soundtracks of natural sounds that are then shared with people living in care homes. The project aims to evaluate what the impact of taking these outside sounds into care homes might be on the older people living in such institutional settings. Sounds recorded with the project team of birdsong, sea, rivers, forest walks for example, will be played through special headsets that offer the listener an immersive listening experience that takes them out of the care home, and into the natural world. We estimate, based on previous projects, that there will be affective responses to these sounds that can impact on wellbeing and in consultation with care home workers, older people not living in care homes and care home residents. The potential future applications would be most likely to be an app for use in care home settings.

这项研究是与与老年人合作的慈善机构共同进行的，目的是制作自然声音的配乐，然后与居住在疗养院的人们分享。该项目旨在评估将这些外部声音带入疗养院可能会对生活在此类机构环境中的老年人产生什么影响。例如，项目团队录制的鸟鸣、大海、河流、森林漫步的声音将通过特殊的耳机播放，为听众提供身临其境的聆听体验，让他们走出疗养院，进入自然世界。根据之前的项目，我们估计会对这些声音产生情感反应，从而影响福祉，并与护理院工作人员、不住在护理院的老年人和护理院居民进行协商。未来潜在的应用程序很可能是在疗养院环境中使用的应用程序。