POMOČ Z LIKOVNO UMETNOSTJO KOT OPORA PRI VSTOPU V TRETJE ŽIVLJENJSKO OBDOBJE
ART THERAPY AS A SUPPORT WHEN ENTERING THE THIRD AGE PERIOD

Summary/Abstract: The number of elderly people represents one fifth of the population and the percentage will grow rapidly the next few decades. With the attitude to them that we have today, the information is frightening. As the burden for society, what I am sure they represent to most of the people, it will be hard to live for them. But I am sure that we will, if we begin to treat them differently than today and help them develop the qualities that come with age, be surprised by the wisdom that we no longer expect from them for a long time now. The last three years I am intensively working with the elderly, adding the elements of art therapy in classical painting courses. All this time I am observing how the elderly, who preferably want to leave the class with nice looking craft, respond to playing with color, unusual exercises and deepening to the process and their experience with it and at the end they leave satisfied without having produced a masterpiece. With the introduction of the intuitive way of working in art therapy, the group members connected and relaxed. There is more laughter and ideas that surprise even themselves. Therefore, I started researching the topic and to verify whether a separate sessions of art therapy may contribute to the personal development of elderly and thus to the development of elements that makes elderly people wise.

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