Following my post earlier this month, here’s one more reminder that on September 24th, it’s Arts and Aging Day Canada, for the second year a day that highlights the value of arts-based activities for older adult communities. Supported by the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging and the Sheridan Centre for Elder Research, once again this event is presented by Kate Dupuis, the
While Arts & Aging Day is primarily focused on featuring the selected artistic work of those who live in care homes, retirement communities, seniors or older adult community centres across the country, that should not exclude recognizing the active participation in various areas of the arts by older adults in our communities at large, which
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