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Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit
This resource is designed for leaders and program staff in public, nonprofit, and for-profit arts and humanities organizations and institutions and in healthcare and aging services organizations, corporations, and institutions. It is intended to increase the expertise of those who direct existing community arts and aging programs and to give others in the community the tools to take the first step—and keep going.
The Arts and Aging Toolkit will help you:
- Appreciate why this is a pivotal time for arts and aging in the United States
- Understand that older adults continue to learn and benefit from education
- Learn about the aging services field
- Learn about the arts field and community arts
- Discuss the benefits of professionally conducted, participatory arts and aging programs with a variety of stakeholders (elected officials, funders, partners, and policymakers)
- Design, implement, market, support, evaluate, and sustain these programs for older adults
- Find and train teaching artists who are directly responsible for delivering programs
- Locate advice, training, and assistance
Chapters 1 through 5 provide the background to help you design and implement an arts and aging program. These chapters explain the context for arts and aging today; the benefits of arts participation for older adults; issues, infrastructure, and opportunities in the aging services and arts fields; and effective practices for arts and aging programs.
Chapters 6 through 9 offer practical, how-to guidance for program design and implementation; program evaluation; and public awareness. These chapters illustrate important concepts with concrete examples from successful programs. You can learn something from all of them, whether they are focused on well or frail elders, people who live in the community or in a residential facility, or older adults with dementia.
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