Art for Seniors Fosters Well-Being, Engagement and Connection

At The Arts of Aging, we help senior centers and memory care facilities provide easy and engaging art for seniors so that residents can continue a life of quality, engagement, and relevance and enjoy their present as much as their past.

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Art Activities for Seniors

Our creative programming is designed to empower people of all ages and abilities to express themselves in meaningful ways. At The Arts of Aging, we provide…

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Art activities for seniors that are interesting, relevant, and purposeful

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Art for seniors with dementia

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Easy craft ideas for older adults that develop and maintain motor skills

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Art therapy activities for seniors of all ages and abilities

How We Help Senior Centers, Memory Care Facilities & Caregivers

The Arts of Aging programs are grounded in art education and Montessori practices. Every creative activity is purposeful and engaging for all residents regardless of ability. Since each art activity is simple to present and fun to do, success is built in.

Our staff training develops critical thinking, adaptability and interpersonal skills to help them successfully offer creative activities for seniors. We know that engaged staff and caregivers are vital to a thriving community. Offering them practical training is one of the best ways to support and value them.

Distinguish yourself in the marketplace with arts programming developed by founder Harper Marten that includes community-building activities, personalized care, and social interventions.

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AN ESSENTIAL PART OF ELDER CARE

Art for Seniors Improves Everyday Functional Abilities & Skills

Our creative programs for seniors encourages them to strengthen their gross and fine-motor muscle control while engaging in easy and fun art activities. Using simple art materials, techniques, and activities help seniors develop and maintains the motor skills necessary for everyday functions.

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Art Fosters Well-Being

Resources that foster mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being have been shown to reduce the need for medical interventions and reduce the costs of care.

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Arts Cultivates Community

Cultivate a stand-out community with a creative and vibrant culture that shows an inviting lifestyle to future residents and innovative well-being to their adult children.

What Do We Do?

The Arts of Aging creates art-based programs for senior and memory care communities that bring out the best in everyone. What can a person become when we provide a space where they feel safe and protected, seen and heard, happy and healthy? They can discover who they came here to be. Happy, healthy, safe and protected. This is what everyone wants for seniors.

Who Do We Work With?

Senior and memory care communities who believe in community-building, shared decision-making, and personalized care. You value a variety of social interventions as preventative care. You want to create a culture of curiosity and value integrated well-being. We work with senior and memory care communities who take pride in these values that set them apart.

What Problems Do We Solve?

The Art of Aging uses creative practices to provide mental and emotional outlets as well as motor, cognitive, and sensory exercises to maintain physical health and memory. Our programming also fosters generativity — the belief that who we are and what we do is of benefit to future generations and the larger community.

Why Work With Us?

The Arts of Aging programming is designed by expert educators in art and Montessori practices. That means staff can feel confident that they’re consistently delivering engaging and meaningful creative activities to their residents whether or not they have any formal art experience. It also means that residents can look forward to an open-ended art process with success built in every time they gather together.