Sonic Care/Care-ful Sounds: Sound, Environment and Ageing

Gardner, Abigail ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2994-741X (2026) Sonic Care/Care-ful Sounds: Sound, Environment and Ageing. In: IAGG Amsterdam, 5 - 9 July 2026, Amsterdam. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

This paper examines the central premise of environmental care from a sonic perspective. From October 2023 - September 2025, SAGE researchers from The University of Gloucestershire and Brunel University of London explored relationships between sound, nature connection, and wellbeing in UK care home residents. The premise was that care home residents experience a disjuncture with the natural world. Using 10 soundscapes co-produced by older people, the team explored how immersive listening may be used to ‘repair’ (Tronto,1993) that connection. They found instances of ‘trans-temporal listening’ and ‘listening across age’ (Gardner 2023), both atemporal listening modes. The research also foregrounded listening as embodied and multi-sensorial where residents used the act of listening to experience smells and touch (Schulze 2016). The paper therefore thinks through how listening and sound need to be part of this care-ful investigation into the relationships between care home residents and their changing environments

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA407 Health status indicators.
Depositing User:	Abigail Gardner
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2026 15:08
Last Modified:	15 Jul 2026 15:12
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/16427

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