Resources
Expanding the Circle Messaging Guidebook Appendix Resources
This page brings together the many tools, templates, and resources featured throughout our Creative Aging Messaging Guidebook, “Expanding the Circle: Practical Strategies to Build Support for Creative Aging.” Download the complete guidebook and resource appendix, …
Expanding the Circle: Practical Strategies to Build Support for Creative Aging Messaging Guidebook
This practical guide is designed to help state and local leaders, agencies, advocates, and community partners make a strong, evidence-based case for creative aging as part of healthy aging policy and practice. Inside, you’ll find …
United Way of Central Iowa Advocacy Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to help you understand the crucial roll advocacy efforts play in our community, different ways to engage in advocacy, and how to begin the planning process.
Funding For Creative Aging: A Practical Guide for Organizations
At Lifetime Arts, we’ve seen firsthand how creative aging transforms communities. Programs that engage older adults in meaningful arts learning reduce isolation, improve health, and build community. But the question most organizations ask is: “How …
Funding For Creative Aging: A Practical Guide for Artists + Teaching Artists
Artists are at the heart of the creative aging movement. You inspire, teach, and connect—helping participants learn new skills, engage creatively, and find joy through art. But sustaining an artistic and a teaching practice takes …
Embedding Creative Aging in Healthy Aging Policy and Planning Webinar
Creative aging is no longer a “nice to have” — it’s a high-value strategy for health, connection, and community well-being. The question now is: how do we embed it into policy and systems at scale? …
Lifelong Arts Indiana: Your Guide For Designing and Hosting Arts Experiences For Older Adults
From the guide: Are you a librarian, nonprofit community organizer, aging services provider, arts organization or other interested creative? Have you come looking for ways to engage your older population with creative arts activities that …
Marketing Your Creative Aging Program to Older Adults Guide
This practical guide is designed to support teaching artists and program administrators in promoting creative aging programs to older adults and encouraging them to register and participate. Covering everything from marketing channels and accessible visual …
Embedding Creative Aging in the Healthy Aging Ecosystem Convo
Lifetime Arts Executive Director, Heather Ikemire, and Director of External Affairs, Liza Cucco explored our new policy brief, Creative Aging in the Healthy Aging Ecosystem. In this 30-minute conversation, we shared why Lifetime Arts undertook …
Creative Aging in the Healthy Aging Ecosystem Policy Brief
This policy brief lays out a bold, evidence-based case for embedding creative aging in America’s healthy aging agenda—highlighting its impact on brain health, social connectedness, and livable communities, and offering clear policy recommendations for cross-sector …