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Aging in Place: A Guide to Growing Older at Home
via Aging in Place | Articles and Blog Posts
From the RetireGuide website: Aging in place is the process of staying in your own home as you grow older instead of moving to an outside facility. To properly age in place, you should create …
Aging in the Social Space
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A publication called, “Aging in the Social Space” is a compilation of studies, which deal with theoretical understanding and empirical solutions, learning about problem spheres, specifying content parallels of social, legal, economic, moral and ethical …
Beneficial effects of choir singing on cognition and well-being of older adults
via PLOS One Collection Social Psychiatry | Research and Studies
The authors of this report note that “choir singing has been associated with better mood and quality of life (QOL) in healthy older adults, but little is known about its potential cognitive benefits in aging. …
Beyond Older Age: Approaches to Understand the Diverse Lives of Older People
via The University of Manchester Library | Books and Chapters
‘Beyond Older Age: Approaches to Understand the Diverse Lives of Older People’ is a booklet for anyone wanting to engage older people in a more inclusive, creative, and participatory way. It aims to equip policy …
Encore Creativity for Older Adults
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Encore Creativity for Older Adults’ guiding mission is to create meaningful arts experiences supporting lifelong learning, wellness, and fun for all older adults. We envision a world where all older adults have a place in the arts. …
Growing Old or Living Long: Take Your Pick
via Issues in Science and Technology | Articles and Blog Posts
From the article: “My students, colleagues, and I had been studying age-related changes in motivation for several years. We began to wonder whether changes in motivation would affect performance on cognitive tasks, and we set …
Older Adults Celebrate LGBT Identity, Pride in Art Exhibit, Book
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This article examines “Not Another Second” a joint project of Watermark Communities and Sage, the oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT older people. “Not Another Second” stands for the collective time in …
Perspectives and Theories of Social Innovation for Ageing Population
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From the abstract: In recent years we may observe increasing interest in the development of social innovation both regarding theory as well as the practice of responding to social problems and challenges. One of the …