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Resilience and Ageing: Creativity, Culture and Community

Books and Chapters   |   2018

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 …

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Aging, Creativity and Art: A Positive Perspective on Late Life Development

Books and Chapters

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 …

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Boomers and Beyond: Reconsidering the Roles of Libraries

via Boomers & Beyond: Reconsidering the Role of Libraries   |   Books and Chapters   |   2010

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 …

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Creating Together: Participatory, Community-Based, and Collaborative Arts Practices and Scholarship Across Canada

Books and Chapters   |   2015

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 …

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Case Study: Engaging Older People in Creative Thinking–The Active Energy Project

via Health, Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Policy and Research, and Wellbeing: International Perspectives on Practice   |   Books and Chapters   |   2015

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. …

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30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice From the Wisest Americans

Books and Chapters   |   2017

More than one thousand extraordinary Americans share their stories and the wisdom they have gained on living, loving, and finding happiness.

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Aging and Gender in Literature

Books and Chapters   |   1993

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 …

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The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life

Books and Chapters   |   2001

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 …

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Lifelong Learning in Aging Societies: Emerging Paradigms

via Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics   |   Books and Chapters   |   2008

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 …

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Creativity in Later Life

Books and Chapters   |   2018

This collection begins with two premises: that our understanding of the nature and forms of creativity in later life remains limited and that dialogue between specialists in gerontology, the arts and humanities can produce the …

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