Resources
Building Bridges Across Age and Cognitive Barriers Through Art: College Students’ Reflections on an Intergenerational Program With Elders Who Have Dementia
via Journal of Intergenerational Relationships | Research and Studies | 2012
From the abstract: The positive impact of intergenerational service learning experience on college students’ academic and personal development is well documented. However, it is not clear whether students engaged in such programs with elders who …
Building Creative Aging Ideas Worksheet
Toolkits | 2020
This tool was designed for teaching artists’ use this tool when assessing their interest in working with older adults, the assets and skills they may employ to teach them, and curricular adaptations they might need …
Yo, Is This Ageist?
Columns and Blogs
From the blog: A shameless imitation of the excellent yoisthisracist blog. Ageism is the last frontier. I’m writing about this stuff at This Chair Rocks.
Aging and Gender in Literature: Studies in Creativity
Books and Chapters | 1993
From WorldCat’s description: By adding consideration of age to that of race, gender, and class, this volume seeks to show how growing older affects literary creativity and psychological development, and to examine how individual writing …
Telling Stories: Aging, Reminiscence, and the Life Review
via Telling Stories | | 1997
From the website: Kathleen Woodward explores the workings of reminiscence and of life review—one fragmentary, the other totalizing—and their importance, what they have to offer to a life as it passes into old age. Reminiscing …
With Exercise, It Can Stretch—Not Hobble—To 70
via The Washington Times | Articles and Blog Posts | 2006
From the article: Good mental and physical exercises are thought to help with brain functioning as we age. But the devil is in the details and inside the brain itself, which has a mind of …
Which Is Worse, Being Lonely or Just Being Alone?
via AARP Blog | Articles and Blog Posts | 2013
From the article: The researchers at University College London knew from previous studies that both isolation and loneliness raised a person’s risk of death. What they wanted to see was whether one condition – or …
Welcome Stranger: Public Libraries Build the Global Village
Reports | 2008
From the introduction: The Urban Libraries Council (ULC), the leading organization devoted to strengthening the public library as an essential part of urban life, is composed of 150 major public libraries and the corporations that …
The Plastisity of Human Aging
| 2012
From the lecture description: Walter M. Bortz II, M.D., a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, gave a lecture The Plastisity of Human Aging in Schroedinger Lecture Theatre. His book Dare …
United States Demographics (Stanford Center on Longevity)
Articles and Blog Posts | 2013
From the Center on Longevity site: Over the next 30 years, the US population age 65+ will double from 40 million to 80 million, and the share of old people will increase from 13% to …