description
Creative Aging in NYC is a project of Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging, Lifetime Arts, and LiveOn NY funded by The New York Community Trust. The purpose of this website and report is to promote the evidence for the benefits of creative aging for: older adults who participate; institutions that provide it (cultural organizations, senior centers, and others); and neighborhoods in which it occurs.
The goal of the project is to broaden support for creative aging with the perspective that creative aging is a natural for NYC and a win for older adults, the organizations that serve them, the arts in NYC, and neighborhoods all over town.
The New York Community Trust funded the initiative to strengthen and advance the field of creative aging in New York City, with a focus on the SU-CASA arts program, which brings teaching artists to senior centers across the five boroughs.
contributor
Ruth Finkelstein
related organizations
Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College