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Creativity and Aging

Fundamentals
The Center on Aging, Health, and Humanities, George Washington University Medical Center Key Research and Priority Areas
What we know about creativity and older adults – from the Center on Aging Studies Without Walls, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Gray Matters: Aging and the Creative Brain – from The Muse’s Muse
Current Research
The impact on older participants of professionally conducted cultural programs: A 3-year study – from the National Center for Creative Aging, National Endowment for the Arts
The impact of intergenerational programs on long-term care residents – from the Center for Intergenerational Learning, Temple University (PDF)
Additional Resources
Bibliography in Creativity and Aging – from the Center on Aging, Health, and Humanities, George Washington University Medical Center
Bibliography – from Elders Share the Arts (ESTA), Brooklyn, New York
Arts Participation: The Greying of America – from The Arts and Older Americans program of the National Endowment for the Arts
Creative Forces in Later Life: Georgia O'Keefe, Henri Matisse, Suzanne Valedon, and Marc Chagall – from the American Society on Aging, Denver, CO

Creativity in Older Adulthood – from Clearinghouse on Adult Career and Vocational Education, Columbus, OH

Time's Potential: The Past, Present and Future of Aging – an outline for interdisciplinary appreciation of aging from the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Humanities Forum

Time and the Experience of Aging
Arts Programs Uniting Generations – from Elders Share the Arts (ESTA)
Birthing the Crone: Menopause and Aging through an Artist’s Eyes – by Helen Redman, MFA
Lively Arts – from AARP
Creativity in the Later Years – from Belief.net
Guided Autobiography for Older Adults: New Learning Based on Old Experiences – from the Older Learner

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