Resources
The End of Old Age: Living A Longer, More Purposeful Life
Agronin offers a positive view of aging, emphasizing the possibilities for learning and growth and the importance of having a purpose.
Resilience and Ageing: Creativity, Culture and Community
Academics with a wide range of expertise critically reflect on the many factors — including artist-led interventions – that encourage older adults to thrive. The book includes multiple research approaches, including participatory research, to bring …
Aging, Creativity and Art: A Positive Perspective on Late Life Development
The research presented in Aging, Creativity and Art: A Positive Perspective on Late-Life Development suggests that creativity continues into the later years; higher-order mental abilities related to creativity, like imagination and problem-solving, persist until late …
Boomers and Beyond: Reconsidering the Roles of Libraries
Boomers and Beyond: Reconsidering the Roles of Libraries, offers a menu of provocative concepts and applications. It is based on three assumptions, including: the lengthening of the human life span will have profound effects on …
Creating Together: Participatory, Community-Based, and Collaborative Arts Practices and Scholarship Across Canada
Creating Together explores an emerging approach to research that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory, community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across multiple disciplines. Looking at a variety of art forms, from photography and …
Case Study: Engaging Older People in Creative Thinking–The Active Energy Project
The Active Energy project involved a participatory arts approach to empowering and stimulating older people’s active creativity. Participants drew on their own life experience to propose technological innovation based on local knowledge and real need. …
30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice From the Wisest Americans
More than one thousand extraordinary Americans share their stories and the wisdom they have gained on living, loving, and finding happiness.
Aging and Gender in Literature
By adding consideration of age to that of race, gender, and class, this innovative volume seeks to show how growing older affects literary creativity and psychological development and to examine how individual writing careers begin …
The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life
In this groundbreaking book, world-renowned psychiatrist and researcher Gene D. Cohen takes us to the wellspring of genuine human vitality, the unique creative power generated by age and experience, and shows us how to tap …
Lifelong Learning in Aging Societies: Emerging Paradigms
Learning opportunities for midlife and older adults have proliferated around the world since the early 1970s, We can attribute this growth to one or all of the following: (a) national efforts to promote lifelong learning …