Resources
In Athens, the Last Man Painting
via The New York Times | Articles and Blog Posts | 2014
This article focuses on the life of Vasilis Dimitriou, 78, the last movie billboard painter in Greece, and how the golden age of cinema awakened his lifelong craft.
At the Intersection of Arts and Aging
Articles and Blog Posts | 2013
To explore such questions about the arts as a possible promoter of good health, NIA has teamed up with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) …
Creative Aging: Selfhood, Temporality and the Older Adult Learning
via International Journal of Lifelong Education | Articles and Blog Posts | 2014
Paper describes a long-term ethnography of an adult creative writing class in a major urban art gallery in the UK. It examines the validity of prevailing theories of learning in later life that advocate reminiscence …
Research on Creativity and Aging: the Positive Impact of the Arts on Health and Illness
via Generations | Articles and Blog Posts | 2006
Dr. Cohen, regarded as one of the founders of the emerging creative aging movement, reviews the changes in attitudes and scholarship on aging since the 1970’s that have led to a new understanding of the …
Ways of Bolstering Resilience in Older Adults
via Melissa Institute | Articles and Blog Posts | 2016
This article looks at ways to assess and bolster resilience, taking into account a number of factors, including: “Epidemiological studies indicate that an estimated 20% of adults 65 years of age and older meet the …
Healthy Aging Persons and Their Brains: Promoting Resilience Through Creative Engagement
via Clinical Geriatric Medicine | Articles and Blog Posts | 2010
Creative engagement, as an expression of and a support for resilience, may have a neuroprotective effect among older adults, contributing to retention of cognitive capacity. Recent research on creative activities shows that they strengthen social …
Images of Old Age in Youtube: Destabilizing Stereotypes
via Continuum | Articles and Blog Posts | 2016
This article presents an analysis of the most viewed YouTube videos under the labels ‰Ű÷old age‰ŰŞ, ‰Ű÷older age‰ŰŞ and ‰Ű÷senior citizens‰ŰŞ. As powerful sources that transmit cultural information which either perpetuates or undermines cultural stereotypes …
Community of Voices/Communidad De Voces
via Innovations in Aging | Articles and Blog Posts | 2017
With the rise in the number of older adults, there is an urgent need to develop cost-effective interventions that can be easily adapted for adults from diverse racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. The goal of this …
Resilience in the Elderly
via Journal of Aging Life Care | Articles and Blog Posts | 2015
Resilience is multifaceted and complex. It is wrought by a number of individual psychosocial and physiological attributes and resources, and tends to develop best in the context of a supportive environment. The literature reveals a …
The Arts, Health and Aging in America: 2005-2015
via Gerontologist | Articles and Blog Posts | 2015
In advance of the White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA) in 1981, 1995, and 2005, the arts and aging communities held mini-conferences to ensure that arts, culture, and livability were part of larger public policy …