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50+ Library Services: Innovation in Action
Books and Chapters
Some of the most engaged and frequent users of public libraries are over the age of 50. They may also be the most misunderstood. As Baby Boomers continue to swell their ranks, the behavior, interests, …
92-Year-Old Instructor Embodies UNLV’s Lifelong Learning Program
via Las Vegas Sun | Articles and Blog Posts
From the Las Vegas Sun Article: Ruth Elliott, 92, teaches a parapsychology course to seniors at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNLV Paradise campus in Las Vegas. She is the oldest instructor at Osher, …
Age-Friendly Standards: What Are They?
Reports
From the Report: Organisations that sign-up to the Age-Friendly Standards value all generations and want to provide a welcoming and positive experience for everyone, regardless of their age. Whilst many of the Age-Friendly Standards relate …
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) Teal Room Community Classes
Academic Courses
From the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) Website: AFA’s Teal Room Community Classes provides a variety of in-person therapeutic programs ranging from the creative arts therapies, Broadway singer performances, chair yoga, gardening classes, and more! …
Are We Ready for the 100 Year Life?
Creative Aging Resource Journals
In this issue of The Creative Aging Resource Newsletter by Lifetime Arts, we featured four resources which provide an overview of the most significant and advanced new thinking regarding what it will take to create …
As We Live Longer, How Should Life Change? There is a Blueprint.
via The New York Times | Articles and Blog Posts
This article provides an overview of “The New Map of Life,” developed by the Stanford Center on Longevity that “reimagines education, careers, cities and life transitions for lives that span a century (or more).” Journalist …
Creative Ageing – What Next?
Articles and Blog Posts
A short collection of essays from practitioners in creative ageing about what a future agenda for the movement might look like.
Creative Aging in NYC Report
via Creative Aging in NYC | Reports
From the report’s overview: “The blossoming field of creative aging promotes opportunities for older adults to engage in the arts through community-based programs. Evidence supports many benefits of creative aging—for older adults who participate, the …
Creative Aging: Reawaken the Artist Within
via Denver Public Library | Articles and Blog Posts
In this article, The Denver Public Library announces that it will begin running Creative Aging programs for its older adult community, funded by the NextFifty initiative, a Colorado-based private foundation dedicated to funding innovative, mission-driven …
Creative Aging: Selfhood, Temporality and the Older Adult Learning
via International Journal of Lifelong Education | Articles and Blog Posts
Paper describes a long-term ethnography of an adult creative writing class in a major urban art gallery in the UK. It examines the validity of prevailing theories of learning in later life that advocate reminiscence …