What might you expect to hear as a prevailing objection for why it isn’t easy to invest in and imbed an arts related program for older adults within the context of an institutional social and health care service, such as a retirement residence, assisted living or long-term care environment? No budget. No time. No internal
Reaching transcendence by way of experience in the creative arts is a wonderful thing, oft times an out of body experience, through music, dance or other performing arts, sculpting or painting. Most of us can probably say that we have at certain times, startlingly, found a transcendent moment by the mere process of attending a
With a plurality of global narratives competing for our mindful attention – from climate change to mass human migration, from social and economic conflict to technological disruption – other threads in the story such as demographic behavioral shifts and aging populations also intertwine, forming one big ball. We are, in our individual and collective ways,
In the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) second report – The Future Cost of Long Term Care, we are asked to question, with good reason,the sustainability of Canada’s current system, looking at its status in 2019, while projecting figures and statistics for the next thirty years to 2050. As with so many studies, reports and
Following the Sept.10 release of the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) first report in a series of three – Enabling the Future Provision of Long Term Care in Canada, on October 8 the public received the second report – The Future Cost of Long Term Care. Before you dig into this, I would suggest you set
Now for a brief change of pace from usual discussions on modern aging and longevity issues, simply because. However, in some peculiar way, the story of this site is a historical portrait of longevity. August 79 CE – or was it October that year, as recent research discoveries suggest? Either way I am but a