RESOURCE GUIDES AND TRAINING MANUALS
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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Creativity Matters: Arts and Aging in America
a monograph published with Americans for the Arts
Arts and creativity programs provided by and for older adults are fast becoming accepted for their health, morale, and social benefit. This Monograph is intended to begin dialogue with the arts field about such programs by providing basic information on current trends and opportunities to integrate creativity and aging.
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Hard copies available through Americans for the Arts
Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit
This first of its kind resource is now available! Published jointly by the National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA), the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), this guide will prove invaluable to arts, healthcare and aging services organizations. The Toolkit is made possible by the generous support from the MetLife Foundation, NAMM: The International Music Products Association, the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey, and Roche. Order a copy or, view the digital version of this guide online. Also available in Spanish.
$45.00 Per copy (includes shipping) To order hard copies of the Creativity Matters: Arts and Aging Toolkit, specifically, download the Toolkit order form.
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The following materials can be purchased through The ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center at 1-800-858-4998 and bonniev@seniortheatre.com:
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 reminiscence, as well to the ways to use theater to elicit, 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)