Resources
The Mature Mind: the Positive Power of the Aging Brain
Drawing on a wealth of scientific research, as well as in-depth interviews with older women and men, Gene Cohen, a renowned psychiatrist and gerontologist, reveals for the first time how the mind continues to grow …
The Arts and Older People: A Global Perspective
This chapter (in Creative Aging, Health and Well-Being (Clift and Camic, eds)) focuses on the potential for participatory arts to support a good life in older age. It is motivated by the author‰ŰŞs personal experience …
Aging in America: A Cultural History
By tracing the story of aging in the United States over the course of the last half century, Samuel vividly demonstrates the ways in which getting older tangibly contradicts the prevailing social values and attitudes …
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.