Resources
Funding For Creative Aging: A Practical Guide for Organizations
At Lifetime Arts, we’ve seen firsthand how creative aging transforms communities. Programs that engage older adults in meaningful arts learning reduce isolation, improve health, and build community. But the question most organizations ask is: “How …
Funding For Creative Aging: A Practical Guide for Artists + Teaching Artists
Artists are at the heart of the creative aging movement. You inspire, teach, and connect—helping participants learn new skills, engage creatively, and find joy through art. But sustaining an artistic and a teaching practice takes …
Embedding Creative Aging in Healthy Aging Policy and Planning Webinar
Creative aging is no longer a “nice to have” — it’s a high-value strategy for health, connection, and community well-being. The question now is: how do we embed it into policy and systems at scale? …
Lifelong Arts Indiana: Your Guide For Designing and Hosting Arts Experiences For Older Adults
From the guide: Are you a librarian, nonprofit community organizer, aging services provider, arts organization or other interested creative? Have you come looking for ways to engage your older population with creative arts activities that …
Marketing Your Creative Aging Program to Older Adults Guide
This practical guide is designed to support teaching artists and program administrators in promoting creative aging programs to older adults and encouraging them to register and participate. Covering everything from marketing channels and accessible visual …
Embedding Creative Aging in the Healthy Aging Ecosystem Convo
Lifetime Arts Executive Director, Heather Ikemire, and Director of External Affairs, Liza Cucco explored our new policy brief, Creative Aging in the Healthy Aging Ecosystem. In this 30-minute conversation, we shared why Lifetime Arts undertook …
Creative Aging in the Healthy Aging Ecosystem Policy Brief
This policy brief lays out a bold, evidence-based case for embedding creative aging in America’s healthy aging agenda—highlighting its impact on brain health, social connectedness, and livable communities, and offering clear policy recommendations for cross-sector …
Creative Aging in Libraries Website
Lifetime Arts’ Creative Aging in Libraries website is a trusted starting point for libraries looking to expand creative aging opportunities. Built on the impact of our three-year project with the Wyoming State Library, Missouri State …
Nebraska Arts Council Creative Aging Program One-Pager
This one-page dashboard created by the Nebraska Arts Council is a simple, visual snapshot they use to brief legislators, library directors, and community partners across the state.
Creative Aging Is Healthy Aging: How to Make the Case
In this issue of The Creative Aging Resource Journal, Nicole Morgan, Research Manager at the University of Florida’s Center for Arts in Medicine, takes us inside the latest research from the U.S. and beyond showing …