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The National Center for Creative Aging is dedicated to ensuring that older people have access to artistic excellence. As such, each year we provide thousands of professionals in the fields of aging, health care, social work, education and the arts with highly interactive trainings that wed theory and practice. In addition, we distribute essential materials and publications for those serving older adults.
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RESOURCE GUIDES AND TRAINING MANUALS
CREATIVITY MATTERS: THE ARTS AND AGING TOOLKIT $35
A first-of-its-kind resource for arts, healthcare and aging services organizations; published jointly by the National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA), the National Guild of Community Schools for the Arts and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), all of whom are committed to lifelong learning in the arts. Read more about the Toolkit and complete an order form to obtain a hard copy of this invaluable publication. Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit is now also available online in a digital format.
A STAGE FOR MEMORY: A GUIDE TO THE LIVING HISTORY THEATER PROGRAM OF ELDERS SHARE THE ARTS $18/15 Members
A comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of reminicence, as well to the ways to use theater to ellicit, enhance, and document memories. Based on twenty-five years of "Living History Theater" at Elders Share the Arts.
THE ARTS AND DEMENTIA CARE: A RESOURCE GUIDE $15/$12 Members
Ideal for professional caregivers who want to offer arts programs to clients with dementia. The guide outlines successful models and offers tips for designing, implementing, funding, and sustaining an arts program for this population.
LEGACY WORKS: VISUAL ART AND REMINISCENCE FOR OLDER ADULTS $18/$15 Members
An 80 page manual that outlines this simple, flexible and powerful art and reminiscence program. Legacy Works matches teenagers, adult volunteers or home health aides with older people, and is particularly effective with frail and homebound populations.
GENERATING COMMUNITY: INTERGENERATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS THROUGH THE EXPRESSIVE ARTS $15/$12 Members
Based on ESTA's award winning program, this book describes the step by step process of creating intergenerational partnerships between youth, seniors and arts agencies.
GRANDPARTNERS $15/$12 Members
Grandpartners documents several of the best examples of intergenerational learning, reflecting a range of approaches and goals. Service/action program.
NOURISHING THE HEART $15/12 Members
Intergenerational manual for teachers K-12, including lesson plans.
VIDEOS
ELDER VOICES, VHS, color, 26 minutes. $35/$30 Members
Produced by Eric Breitbart. Brings viewers inside Living History Theater workshop sessions at Amsterdam Nursing Home in Manhattan. Provides moving portrait of a vital, caring and often humorous group of residents as they portray the stories of their lives. A training film for nursing home workers as well as an example of a Living History Theater program with frail elderly.
ESTA PROFILE, VHS, color, 16 minutes. $30/$25 Members
Produced by Hank Linhart. A short documentary on all Elders Share the Arts Programs including our living history workshops, Pearls of Wisdom storytellers and the Living History Theater Festivals.
AUDIO CASSETTE TAPES
PEARLS OF WISDOM, 30 minutes. $10/$8 Members
Elder storytellers weave tales of struggle and triumph. (Live at Omega Institute Conference on Aging)
Ordering Publications
To order hard copies of the Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit, specifically, dowload the Toolkit order form. (Bulk copies available.)
All of our other pulications and materials are available though Elders Share the Arts. To order all other publications, download the order form. (Download Acrobat Reader to view our PDF publication form.) For discounts on materials and publications, become a member.
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