We are experiencing a historical moment with the challenge of the COVID-19 global pandemic. The outbreak of COVID-19 will have a long-term and profound impact on older adults' health and well-being.

Social isolation and loneliness are major risk factors that have been linked with poor physical and mental health status.

Experts indicate that Art Therapy can play a crucial role to prevent mentioned dysfunctions. Art Therapy involves the use of creative techniques such as drawing, painting, collage, coloring or sculpting to help people express themselves artistically

It helps older adults explore their emotions, improve self-esteem, relieve stress, improve symptoms of anxiety and depression and cope with a physical illness or disability.

In the light of the mentioned facts, the project aims to facilitate the application of Art Therapy techniques on older adults and their caregivers to ensure their mental well-being especially during the lockdown and social isolation times.

Project Objectives

• Enriching the lives of seniors and erasing negative emotional effects of social isolation,
• Improving their mental wellbeing through art therapy applications,
• Provide guidance to seniors and their caregivers to perform art therapy applications at home,
• Enhance arts and creativity knowledge and competencies of adult trainers,
• Make adult trainers competent on guidance to art therapy applications

Project Outputs

Training Programme & Materials

The program that will consist of both classroom and mobile learning  will aim to increase caring competencies of  adult trainers through learning guidance to Art Therapy applications for elderly people .

Mobile Learning Platform

M-learning platform will support online learning of targeted people whenever and whereever they are avaliable to learn through their mobiles, tablets or pc's

Activity Book

Incase of  art therapist or any other care adult trainers absency, seniors would highly benefit from a practical guide which includes art therapy activities dealing with emotions like stress and anxiety and helping people appreciate and focus on the good.

Videos & Podcasts

The fact that people more and more tend to visual objects to learn nowadays, makes the project consider creating a video series as a complementary tool to Activity Book.

The  project content will also be transmitted through Podcasts which are more and more attractive learning platform by taking the advantage of usability in wasted time like driving car or travelling in a bus.