ABSTRACT

Secure long-term care units come with a unique set of challenges, particularly around exit-seeking behaviour. Arts-based environmental interventions on secure units successfully reduce problematic behaviours, while simultaneously ensuring resident safety and improving resident quality of life. The present arts-based project enhanced a distraction mural intervention to incorporate magnets as a participative arts feature. The project was evaluated through a roundtable discussion with unit staff. Findings showed that in addition to reducing exit-seeking behaviour, the magnets provided an aesthetically engaging set of objects for residents to gather up and hold, to pause and explore, and to create order. Challenges with direct care staff are identified and future ideas for arts-based projects on secure units are considered.

摘要

安全的长期护理单位面临一系列独特的挑战，尤其是在寻求退出的行为方面。针对安全单元的基于艺术的环境干预成功地减少了有问题的行为，同时确保了居民安全并提高了居民的生活质量。目前的艺术项目加强了分散注意力的壁画干预，将磁铁作为参与式艺术特色。该项目通过与单位工作人员的圆桌讨论进行了评估。调查结果表明，除了减少寻求出口的行为外，磁铁还为居民提供了一组具有美学吸引力的物品，供居民收集和持有、暂停和探索以及创造秩序。确定了直接护理人员面临的挑战，并考虑了安全单位基于艺术的项目的未来想法。