Introduction ~ Anna Goulding;

Setting the field: older people’s conceptualisation of resilience and its relationship to cultural engagement ~ Anna Goulding

Ages and Stages: creative participatory research with older people ~ Miriam Bernard, Jill Rezzano and the Ages and

Stages Theatre Company

Social connectivity and creative approaches to dementia care: the case of a poetry intervention ~ Kate de Medeiros and Aagje Swinnen

Narrative identity and resilience for people in later life with dementia living in care homes: the role of visual arts enrichment activities ~

Andrew Newman, Bruce Davenport and Teri Howson-Griffiths

After the earthquake: narratives of resilience, re-signification of fear and revitalisation of local identities in rural communities of Paredones, Chile

~ Cynthia Meersohn Schmidt, Paulina Osorio-Parraguez, Adriana Espinoza and Pamela Reyes

Integrating sense of place within new housing developments: a community-based participatory research approach ~ Mei Lan Fang, Ryan Woolrych, Judith Sixsmith, Sarah L. Canham, Lupin Battersby, Tori Hui Ren and Andrew Sixsmith

Ageing in place: creativity and resilience in neighbourhoods ~ Cathy Bailey, Rose Gilroy, Joanna Reynolds, Barbara Douglas, Claire Webster Saaremets, Mary Nicholls, Laura Warwick and Martin Gollan

Crafting resilience for later life ~ Jackie Reynolds

Oral histories and lacemaking as strategies for resilience in women’s craft groups ~ Anna Sznajder and Katarzyna Kosmala

Objects of loss: resilience, continuity and learning in material culture relationships ~ Helen Manchester

Later-life gardening in a retirement community: sites of identity, resilience and creativity ~ Evonne Miller, Geraldine Donoghue, Debra Sullivan

and Laurie Buys

Andrew Newman is Professor of Cultural Gerontology at Newcastle University. His research focuses on resilience, connectivity and community participation.