Resources
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 …
Associations of Social, Cultural, and Community Engagement With Health Care Utilization in the US Health and Retirement Study
Importance: There is growing evidence for the health benefits associated with social, cultural, and community engagement (SCCE), including for supporting healthy behaviors. However, health care utilization is an important health behavior that has not been …
Participatory and Receptive Arts Engagement in Older Adults: Associations with Cognition Over a Seven-Year Period
Abstract: There is growing evidence for the impact of arts engagement on later life cognition. However, confounding by socioeconomic factors may have led to an overestimation of this association. We analyzed data from 4,344 older …
Leisure Engagement in Older Age is Related to Objective and Subjective Experiences of Aging
Abstract: Leisure engagement has potential to slow health and functional decline in older age. However, the benefits of different leisure domains for different aspects of aging remains unclear. In 8771 older adults from the Health …
Engagement in Leisure Activities and Depression in Older Adults in the United States: Longitudinal Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study
Background Receptive cultural engagement (e.g. attending theaters and museums) can reduce depression in older adults. However, whether specific participatory leisure activities are associated with lower rates of depression remains unknown. We aimed to test whether …