In English
Eldreveven is a national website containing creative texts by elderly people, for everyone interested in the resources of the elderly. Eldreveven is partly financed by The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority. Hordaland County Library runs the website.
You can find collections of translated texts here:
Aging_and_Verbal_Creativity.PDF
Creative Writing for Elderly in the Library
Paper presented at IFLA 2002 in Glasgow, by Oddgeir Synnes
Background: The County Library of Hordaland, has funded a project dealing with verbal creativity among elderly people. Several writing courses, have resulted in hundreds of texts: poems, short stories, essays, articles and orally told stories. The experience is:
- Everyone has the ability to create texts that move and enthrall the reader.
- Several say that the course has had a therapeutic effect.
- They experience strengthened identity, when producing stories which have had a strong impact on them, and which they have seldom or never told before.
- They show clearly increased abilities and increased confidence towards their own abilities.
- The participants express that the courses have a positive impact on their everyday lives.
- They tend to write more about the present and the future, rather than the past.
- Some groups have continued meeting after the courses have ended.
For more information:
Lena Jensen
Hordaland County Library
Address: Agnes Mowinckelsgt. 5
Postaddress: Postbox 7900
N-5020 BERGEN
Norway
tel: +47 55 23 93 81
E-mail: redaksjon@eldreveven.no
