Tapping Potential: Arts Learning in Later Life Sponsored by MetLife Foundation, NAMM Foundation, and the National Guild This highly interactive seminar will focus on how arts leaning fuels human development in later life. We’ll begin with a review of the latest developments in the rapidly evolving field of creative aging, including new discoveries about the powerful impact of creative activities on the brain. We’ll examine how older adults learn and continue to develop their potential, and we’ll dig into the design, implementation, and evaluation of effective, sustainable programs in three arenas: skill-based lifelong learning, therapy-based health and wellness programs, and intergenerational community engagement. The importance of tapping the life experiences of older adults—finding and framing their stories—will be explored using case studies and evidence-based practices in multiple disciplines.
Wednesday, November 9, 9:30am - 4:30pm
Boston, MA
The National Center for Creative Aging and the Washington DC Area Geriatric Education Center Consortium present the
WAGECC.NCCA Best Practices Compendium:
Integrating Humanities and the Arts in Healthcare of the Older Adult
June 3, 2011
Hosted at the Arena Stage in Washington, DC
This Compendium of Best Practices for Integrating Humanities and the Arts in Healthcare of the Older Adult was developed as a special project of the Washington DC Area Geriatric Education Center Consortium (WAGECC) and the National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA).
Best practices frequently arise out of quality improvement initiatives and/or the desire to improve care. For the purposes of this Compendium, we used the defiontion of a "best practice" as defined by The Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Initiatives:
"best practice" is the use of care concepts. interventions and techniques that are grounded in research and known to promote higher quality of care and living for older people.
Best Practices were submitted by members of WAGECC and NCCA, as well as others in the Washington, DC area. The Best Practices come from many different healthcare teams and all types of settings, including home, community based settings, long-term care, acute care, and hospice. In addition, the Best Practices in this Compendium facilitate the provision of more person-centered care that is holistic and recognizes the creative potential of older adults from many diverse cultural groups.
The Compendium was compiled through Federal funding received by The George Washington University from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration.
In this Compendium, you will find information on:
- Arts for the Aging, Inc. (AFTA)
- Lori Brady-Neuman, Certified Music Practitioner
- Broadmead Continuing Care Retirement Community
- Capital Caring Hospice In-oatient Center
- ClancyWorks Dance Group at Springvale Terrace Retirement Community
- Elizabeth M. Doherty, M.A., Art Therapist
- Encore Creativity for Older Adults
- Goodwin House Alexandria
- Iona Adult Day Health, Wellness, and Arts Center
- Lisner-Louise-Dickson-Hurt Home
- TIMESLIPS: Creative Group Storytelling Project
To access the Compendium, please click here.
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The National Center for Creative Aging, Grantmakers In Aging, and Grantmakers in the Arts
The Creative Arts and Aging in Grantmaking
Regional Issues Forums
January 27, 2011, 10 am to 3 pm - Phoenix, AZ
Join us for a collaborative discussion on the needs and
opportunities in the areas of arts, aging and healthcare.
Registration opens this November at www.giaging.org.
**Coming soon!! 2nd Regional Issues Forum - March 2011 in New York City**
Facilitated by Bill Benson, Principal, Health Benefits ABCs
Bill Benson is Managing Principal in Health Benefits ABCs, an organization offering health and aging policy, educational and strategic planning consulting services. Benson has worked on health and aging issues for 37 years including in various leadership positions in the U.S. Congress. He served in senior appointee positions at the U.S. Administration on Aging including as Acting Assistant Secretary for Aging prior to starting a consulting practice in 1998. Earlier in his career he spent 10 years with the California Department of Aging including serving as California’s State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. For the past 9 years he has been a consultant to CDC’s Healthy Aging Program. He is also works closely on preventive services with SPARC and its Vote & Vax Initiative. HBABCs writes Critical Issue Briefs for CDC including one on Caregiving among the American Indian population. HBABCs also consults with AoA’s National Technical Resource Center for the nation’s Senior Medicare Patrol programs and is currently writing a white paper on caregiving for the Rosalyn Carter Institute. For the past 11 years Benson has hosted First Person, a weekly series of conversations with Holocaust survivors before live audiences at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Featuring:
Anne Basting, Founder and Director, TimeSlips
Anne Basting (Ph.D.) is the Director of the Center on Age & Community and an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at the Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she teaches storytelling and playwriting. Basting has written extensively on issues of aging and representation, including two books: Forget Memory: Creating better lives for people with dementia (Johns Hopkins UP, 2009) and The Stages of Age: Performing Age in Contemporary American Culture. Her numerous articles and essays have been published across multiple disciplines including journals such as The Drama Review, American Theatre, and Journal of Aging Studies, and anthologies Figuring Age, Mental Wellness in Aging, the Handbook for the Humanities and Aging, and Aging and the Meaning of Time. Basting is the recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship, a Brookdale National Fellowship, and numerous major grants for her scholarly and creative endeavors. Her creative work includes nearly a dozen plays and public performances. Basting received her Ph.D. in Theatre Arts and Dance from the University of Minnesota in 1995. Basting continues to direct the TimeSlips Creative Storytelling Project, which she founded in 1998. http://www.timeslips.org/
Tim Carpenter, Founder and Director, EngAGE
Tim Carpenter is the founder of EngAGE and the EXPERIENCE TALKS radio show. EngAGE provides a whole-person approach to creative and healthy aging for thousands of seniors by delivering college-level wellness, arts/creativity, lifelong learning, civic engagement and intergenerational programs on-site at 18 affordable senior apartment communities in Los Angeles and Orange Counties in Southern California. EngAGE also produces a weekly radio show, Experience Talks, to shine a light on the value of experience in society and to change the way people think about aging, airing for 250,000 listeners on Tuesdays from 2-3 p.m. on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara and streaming live on the web at www.kpfk.org. Tim has more than 20 years of experience in the field of aging, working in senior housing, services and healthcare. Prior to his entry into the senior services arena, Tim worked as a journalist and advertising copywriter, holds a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from San Francisco State University and was a produced playwright. He is a credentialed writing teacher that has been teaching creative writing for stage and screen to seniors for more than 10 years. In 2008, Tim was elected an Ashoka Fellow for being one of the top social entrepreneurs in the world. http://www.engagedaging.org/
Jorge Merced, Associate Artistic Director, Pregones Theater
Jorge is Associate Artistic Director and a performing artist with the Obie Award winning Pregones Theater in the Bronx, NY. He is a graduate of City College-CUNY and EITALC (Cuba), and has studied at the Alvin Ailey School. Known for his chameleonic ability as a stage actor, his credits include El bolero fue mi ruina, Baile Cangrejero, and ¡Ay, Jesús! Oh, Jesus! His director credits include Pablo García Gámez’s Blanco/White, El huésped vacío (IATI), Las facultades, Aloha Boricua, and Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays. Jorge is the recipient of the EL Award from El Diario La Prensa. http://www.pregones.org/