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Ageing Artfully: Older People and Professional Participatory Arts in the UK
Toolkits
From the Toolkit: “The Baring Foundation sets out in this major report a picture of the situation that exists across all art forms — dance, music, drama, painting — as a way of engaging and …
Arts as an Industry: Their Economic Impact on New York City and New York State
Reports
From the Report Summary: “It is widely recognized that the arts are essential to the city and state of New York, which enjoys a global reputation for cultural excellence and opportunity. In the past quarter …
Arts Council England: Social Prescribing
Websites
From the Website: Social prescribing can connect people to a range of activities that are typically provided by voluntary and community sector organisations such as volunteering, arts activities, group learning, gardening, befriending, cookery, healthy eating …
Arts on Prescription: The Logical Step for Health and Wellbeing
Articles and Blog Posts
From the Article: With the groundswell of empirical evidence regarding the arts’ positive impact on both physical and mental wellbeing, particularly in older age, why shouldn’t it be as readily available to the public as …
At the Intersection of Arts and Aging
Articles and Blog Posts
To explore such questions about the arts as a possible promoter of good health, NIA has teamed up with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) …
Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit
Toolkits
From The Arts and Aging Toolkit: This resource is designed for leaders and program staff in public, nonprofit, and for-profit arts and humanities organizations and institutions and in healthcare and aging services organizations, corporations,and institutions. …
Culture on Prescription
Programs and Initiatives
From the Website: Culture on Prescription is an Erasmus+ project that aims to prevent and combat social isolation and loneliness through art and culture. Cultural prescribing is the referral of a healthcare professional of lonely and …
From Training to Practice: Embedding Creative Aging in Our States (NASAA Panel)
Videos
From the YouTube Video Description: Every state’s plan for serving older adults through meaningful arts engagement will (and should) look different. Creative aging programs thrive when they are rooted in authentic collaboration and are responsive …
Harnessing the Power of Age Diversity: Getting the Best Out of the Five-Generation Workforce
Articles and Blog Posts
From HBR.org: “Generational identity should be a source of learning, not division.” “Are tensions between different generations escalating? In organizations, lack of trust between older and younger workers often yields a culture of competition and …
How Creativity Works in the Brain
via Art Works | Reports
Report on a two-day workshop in Santa Fe, NM in 2014 that summarizes themes and trends from psychological and neurobiological studies of creativity. Sessions participants explored examples of trans-disciplinary research and agreed that artistic creation …