Resources
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 …
What Works for Wellbeing: A Systematic Review of Wellbeing Outcomes for Music and Singing in Adults
via Perspectives in Public Health | Articles and Blog Posts | 2017
From a literature review of 5,397 article, the authors anaysed 61 relatively recent studies with some consistency of approach. Most of the programs studied were regular music listening programs or regular group singing. The authors …
News: Creative Aging in American Libraries: the Halftime Report
via Programming Librarian | Articles and Blog Posts | 2016
Friedman, co-founder of Lifetime Arts, provides a progress report on the qualitative research carried out by the Touchstone Center for Collaborative Inquiry regarding the impacts on librarians and participants involved in the national expansion first …
Making Aging Positive
via Atlantic Monthly | Articles and Blog Posts | 2014
Recent research and applications that indicate how improved quality of life for older adults also improves life for all.
Physical Activity in Older Age: Perspectives for Healthy Ageing and Frailty
via Biogerontology | Articles and Blog Posts | 2016
Regular physical activity helps to improve physical and mental functions as well as reverse some effects of chronic disease to keep older people mobile and independent. Despite the highly publicised benefits of physical activity, the …
Making the Ordinary More Extraordinary
via Journal of Holistic Medicine | Articles and Blog Posts | 2018
Exploring Creativity in a Health Promotion Practice concerning older adults in a Community-Based Professionally Taught Arts Program. Results of this new study supported and expanded our earlier model of improved psychosocial and mental well-being due …