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Narrative Medicine: Community Poetry Heals Young and Old
- Community Literacy Journal
- Community Literacy Journal
- Volume 11, Issue 1, Autumn 2016
- pp. 138-145
- 10.1353/clj.2016.0024
- Article
- Additional Information
This is a snapshot of a service learning course founded on narrative medicine, a clinical practice designed to replace impersonal care with empathic listening. By utilizing poetry therapy techniques among nursing home populations, a program called HPU LifeLines promotes a community literacy of illness and provides psychological and physical benefits to elders and students alike through intergenerational relationships sustained by a community writing infrastructure.