Themes of Loss in the Pictorial Language of a Nursing Home

Abstract

This paper explores themes of loss and emptiness which have emerged in the artwork produced by residents of the Jewish Home for Aged in Worcester, Massachusetts. Through five brief case studies and a review of theories about aging and about the grieving process, psychological, thematic and stylistic aspects of the art therapy experience in a nursing home are described. Examples of artwork by residents with a variety of disorders commonly seen in the institutionalized elderly (stroke, arthritis, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease) are included.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 1 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.