Promoting Positive Ageing Lifestyles and Wellbeing Through the Use of Social Media to Facilitate and Enhance Creative Decision-Making

Abstract

This paper represents work in progress with aged communities, on a project to explore the creative potential that can be harnessed from aged communities using social media platforms to assist in the articulation and dissemination of ideas developed through creative collaborative decision making. Our aim is to promote creative thinking and ideas through the introduction of concepts around deliberate creative practices within our aged communities. We wanted to make a case for how this could be instructive for how these communities are empowered to participate in identifying issues and challenges that are able to be actively disseminated through social media, demonstrating the application of creativity processes to decisions and policy impacting and influencing their lifestyles, health and wellbeing across a wide spectrum of social and community applications.