Dancing “…If there’s anything I can do…”

I hope I will always be able to dance because dancing provides a doorway into a different time and space. I ...
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Starting a discussion on your Roadmap through Aging

I recently spent a weekend with 7 other women between 58 and 72. One sunlit morning, we sat around the ...
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Why we do this work……….

Cannot think of a better description...... <<We believe that an individual’s potential does not recede as he or she ages ...
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Somebody

Tony, a resident at one of the Arts Colonies where I work, had written a play about a young writer ...
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Individual Aging: The Red Gate

Thoughts on our own aging….. Walking through filtered sunlight in the woods glowing with color and texture, we playfully crunch the dry ...
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Contexts of the aging individual

Re-Generation : stories of a process. When I founded  Artworks at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco CA, in 1980 there ...
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Road-blocks and detours on the map

"Age isn’t what happens to you – it’s what you do with what happens to you!"These words, used to sign ...
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Inspiration 1

The following story is as much a metaphor for our work in designing programs as it is about making a ...
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Assessing the need for creative involvement 3: Design principles for creative programs

Design principles Intention is everything.Working with older adults is different from almost any group because the teacher-student relationship dissolves. Each ...
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Assessing the need for creative involvement 2: ways to start

The arts and music are wonderful ways to connect, as you address the common biases that art is only for ...
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