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
In his December 2019 Canadian Healthcare Technology Magazine article, David Stoller, Managing Director, MySense Canada states: “From the perspective of the aging population, today we are at a cross-roads that requires us to decide if ‘business as usual’ is going to be enough to support the new demographic reality.”…“To support the change, innovators, entrepreneurs and
This is an original post from February 2017 on the website Planet Longevity which will be reconstituted as part of Change Rangers on Jan.1 2019 Often – if you are open to it – messages from the world of the arts, (arts in any form), that arrive seemingly in a singular way can actually deliver