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| Id | 960 | |
| Author | Hanna G.P., Noelker L.S., Bienvenu B. | |
| Title | The arts, health, and aging in America: 2005-2015 | |
| Reference | Hanna G.P., Noelker L.S., Bienvenu B.; The arts, health, and aging in America: 2005-2015 ;Gerontologist vol:55 issue: 2 page:271.0 |
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| Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84954496453&doi=10.1093%2fgeront%2fgnu183&partnerID=40&md5=4a04e52e3459ad93163f010f7e136c6a |
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| Abstract | In advance of the White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA) in 1981, 1995, and 2005, the arts and aging communities held mini-conferences to ensure that arts, culture, and livability were part of larger public policy discussions. This article takes a historical look at recommendations from the 2005 WHCoA Mini-Conference on Creativity and Aging in America, including arts in health care, lifelong learning, and livability through universal design. Overarching recommendations in 2005 requested investments in research, including costbenefit analyses; identification of best practices and model programs; program dissemination to broaden the availability of arts programs. The Arts is a broad term encompassing all forms of arts including music, theater, dance, visual arts, literature, multimedia and design, folk, and traditional arts to engage the participation of all older Americans; promotion of innovative public and private partnerships to support arts program development, including workforce development (e.g., artists, social workers, and health care providers); and public awareness of the importance of arts participation to healthy aging. Through the leadership of the National Endowment for the Arts and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, thinking about the arts and aging has broadened to include greater emphasis on a whole-person approach to the health and well-being of older adults. This approach engages older adults in arts participation not only as audience members, but as vital members of their community through creative expression focusing on life stories for intergenerational as well as interprofessional collaboration. This article reviews progress made to date and identifies critical gaps in services for future consideration at a 2015 Mini-Conference on Creativity and Aging related to the WCHoA area of emphasis on healthy aging. © The Author 2015. |
In advance of the White House Conference on Aging in 1,,1, 1,,5, and 2,,5, the arts and aging communities held mini-conferences to ensure that arts, culture, and livability were part of larger public policy discussions. A frame- work of evolving stronger methodologies for program evalu- ation is included to build organizational capacity as well as encourage the development of evidence-based programming. Although limited according to an informal survey in conducted by NCCA GEC programs are utilizing the humanities and the arts to illustrate the potential of older people to be engaged later in life as role models of successful aging. The challenging opportunities in lifelong learning and community-building through the arts that should be addressed in the upcoming mini-conference are to: broaden the concept and rationale for lifelong learning in the arts to encompass life enrichment for its own sake and expand workforce development to include encore careers in the arts. Community senior services such as Iona Senior Services in Washington DC incorporate the arts fully into their Adult Day Services by employing a full-time art therapists and multiple partnerships with arts organi- zations and intern- ship programs as well as maintain a robust community arts program with an older artists in residence program and classes in music dance poetry and the visual arts.
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