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‘Disconnected From Other Folks,’ Seniors Grapple With A Loneliness Epidemic
via The Boston Globe | Articles and Blog Posts
“Our Life, Our Stories” at the Speed Art Museum
Videos
From the Speed Art Museum website: “How can an old memory assist in creating a new one? That is the question explored in Our Life, Our Stories, an exhibition about each artist’s relationship to photographs …
“Peace 4 the Ages” Forges Intergenerational Bonds During COVID-19
Articles and Blog Posts
In the beginning of 2020, Michael Matthew Ferrell, founder of Alive & Kickin, a touring vocal ensemble of older adults “who rock,” collaborated with Sandy Boren-Barett, the CEO and Artistic Director of Stages Theatre Company, …
50 More Minnesota Artists Trained in Creative Aging Program Model
Articles and Blog Posts
In July 2019, Aroha Philanthropies and the Minnesota State Arts Board offered the third in a series of Creative Aging trainings for teaching artists working in all arts disciplines. The event, held at the Minneapolis …
A Daughter Documents A Giant of Salsa and Latin Jazz
via The New York Times | Articles and Blog Posts
From Nathan: “Carmen Santos-Robson (from the Newark School of the Arts – who will be implementing programs soon via National Guild Catalyzing Creative Aging) shared an article with me about her father, Ray Santos, which …
A Review of Arts and Aging Research: Revealing an Elusive but Promising Direction for the Era of the Third Age
via Humanities and the Arts, Journal of Aging | Research and Studies
Abstract: “This article examines arts and aging research over a 40-year period in four highly visible gerontology journals. We examine the content, amount, and distribution of research between 1970 and 2009, identifying dominant themes and …
A Scoping Review of Research on the Arts, Aging, and the Quality of Life
via Gerontologist | Articles and Blog Posts
Artistic engagement has been identified as a promising way to improve older adults’ quality of life (QoL) and health. This has resulted in a growing, yet diverse, knowledge base. The purpose of this scoping review …
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 …
Ages and Stages: The Place of Theatre in the Lives of Older People
via Ageing and Society | Articles and Blog Posts
Despite the growing interest amongst gerontologists and literary and cultural scholars alike, in arts participation, ageing and the artistic outputs of older people, comparatively little attention has yet been paid to theatre and drama. Likewise, …
Aging and Gender in Literature
Books and Chapters
By adding consideration of age to that of race, gender, and class, this innovative volume seeks to show how growing older affects literary creativity and psychological development and to examine how individual writing careers begin …