Resources
Innovative, Modern, and Responsive Intergenerational Programming Enhances Creative Aging Strategies
Creative Aging Resource Journals | 2022
In this issue of The Creative Aging Resource Newsletter by Lifetime Arts, Diantha Dow Schull (Curator for Lifetime Arts) researches and discusses how intergenerational artmaking is emerging as a sub-field of creative aging. She provides …
Are We Ready for the 100 Year Life?
Creative Aging Resource Journals | 2022
In this issue of The Creative Aging Resource Newsletter by Lifetime Arts, we featured four resources which provide an overview of the most significant and advanced new thinking regarding what it will take to create …
Theatre Arts for Improving Cognition and Affective Health
via Activities Adaptations and Aging | Articles and Blog Posts | 2015
Psychologist Helga Noice and Theatre Educator Tony Noice have a long record of analyzing the impact of participatory arts on older adults, with a specialty in the relationship between theatre arts and cognition. This article …
Ages and Stages: The Place of Theatre in the Lives of Older People
via Ageing and Society | Articles and Blog Posts | 2014
Since 2009 researchers Miriam Bernard and Michelle Rickett have been involved in a set of related projects under the title “Ages and Stages.” This is a collaboration with researchers at Keele University and theater specialists …
The Cultural Value of Older People’s Experiences of Theater-Making: A Review
via The Gerontologist | Articles and Blog Posts | 2017
This article aims to examine, specifically, the “cultural value” that older adults derive from involvement in theater and drama as participants rather than just observers. They note that many other studies of the impact of …
Return to the Age of Aquarius
Articles and Blog Posts | 2019
This Next Avenue article by Julie Pfitzinger features a recent production of “Hair” by the Minneapolis-based theatre company Theatre 55. The company was founded to provide opportunities for older adults to participate in professional …
Raising the Curtain on Senior Theatre
Articles and Blog Posts | 2020
In this Next Avenue article, Debbie Miller provides a lively introduction to the phenomenon of “senior theatre” in the U.S. She focuses on two of the best known senior theatres: Stagebridge in San Francisco, and …
Reminiscence Theatre: Making Theatre from Memories
Books and Chapters | 2006
Pam Schweitzer’s Reminiscence Theatre: Making Theatre from Memories is a guide to working with older adults to translate personal memories into interactive theatre. It draws on several decades of work in performance art, intergenerational projects, and …
“We Don’t Want to be Seen as Victims”: The Older People Using Theatre to Tell Their Covid Stories
Articles and Blog Posts | 2020
This article focuses on “Secret Country,” a digital theatre piece created by the Re-Live Company of Elders based in Cardiff, Wales. Drawing on the pandemic experience of the company’s nine members , ages 72-93, “Secret …
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) Teal Room Community Classes
Academic Courses | 2022
From the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) Website: AFA’s Teal Room Community Classes provides a variety of in-person therapeutic programs ranging from the creative arts therapies, Broadway singer performances, chair yoga, gardening classes, and more! …