Where can I learn about creative aging programs?
These organizations and articles provide information that will help you understand the value of creative aging programs and how to develop one.
National Endowment for the Arts is the independent federal agency that helps Americans participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities. View their research and resources on creativity and aging.
Lifetime Arts is a nonprofit arts service organization that offers a positive, modern, artistic, and social lens to serve, inspire, and engage America’s growing population of older adults. See their resources.
Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit is for both the arts and aging services fields. It has detailed advice and examples for designing, implementing, and evaluating community arts programs for older adults.
National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA) helps people understand the vital relationship between creative expression and healthy aging – and develops programs that build on this understanding. A wide range of resources is available on their website.
Creative Aging – Sound Health: Music and the Mind is a Kennedy Center presentation by cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Aniruddh Patel supported by the NEA and the NIH.
Museums and Creative Aging: A Healthful Partnership is a landmark report commissioned by the American Alliance of Museums. It is a call to action for museums to change the narrative about what it means to grow old in America.
Reframing Aging is a long-term social change project that’s improving the public's understanding of what aging means and the many ways that older people contribute to our society.
Grantmakers in Aging is a membership organization that serves as a network and resource for funders, and a champion of aging issues.
Articles and Report on Creative Aging and Older Adult Learning
Untapped Opportunity: Older Americans & the Arts is a special report on aging and older adults.
Fostering Aging, Dementia, and Disability Inclusivity is provided by the Connecticut Age Well Collaborative.
Reframing the Aging, Dementia, and Disability Narrative: Celebrating Vitality and Promoting Inclusivity in our Communities is also provided by the Connecticut Age Well Collaborative
The Creativity and Aging Study is formally titled Impact of Professionally Conducted Cultural Programs on Older Adults.
The article A Simple, Easy to Understand Guide to Andragogy explains the science and practice of adult learning.
Loneliness and Social Isolation Linked to Serious Health Conditions from the CDC
The WHO’s Global Report on Ageism outlines a framework for reducing ageism with specific recommendations.
Ageism in the Time of Coronavirus is provided by the African American Policy Forum
Accessibility (A11y) and Universal Design from California State University Northridge’s Universal Design Center.