{"title":"Use of TimeSlips to Improve Communication in Persons with Moderate–Late Stage Dementia","authors":"Laurie A. Bahlke, Sara Pericolosi, M. Lehman","doi":"10.1080/19325614.2010.535239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325614.2010.535239","url":null,"abstract":"There is currently a lack of published research on the effectiveness of a creative expression (CE) program known as TimeSlips (TS), which has the goal of improving quality of life and social connectedness for individuals in the mid to late stages of dementia. This study focused on measuring the impact of TS on the frequency and type of communicative exchanges and the relationship to social connectedness. A quasi-experimental design was conducted in a single long-term care facility with seven participants in the mid to late stages of dementia. A time-series analysis was used to assess change in communicative output and interactions. Positive communication changes in addition to maintained or improved quality of life were observed. Implementing a creative expression program such as TS for those in the middle to late stages of dementia improves social connectedness and communicative interactions.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133539553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Visionary Investigation and Dynamic Exchange between Science and Artistic Practice","authors":"S. Perlstein","doi":"10.1080/19325614.2010.529393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325614.2010.529393","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the author's experience when, as director of the New York-based Elders Share the Arts organization, she was designated as the research project director for Gene D. Cohen's landmark creativity in aging study. Her personal reflections describe how she began her work with Dr. Cohen as an arts administrator unexpectedly immersed in the world of outcomes research and later, as an important part of a project that demonstrated the possibilities and benefits of creativity and the arts in later life.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121185240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Rösler, D. Nesselhauf, U. Pfisterer, Christine Mühlhan, W. Renteln-Kruse
{"title":"“Old-Age-Style” or “Sick-Style”? On the Artistic Development of Cognitively Healthy and Cognitively Impaired Artists with Advancing Age","authors":"A. Rösler, D. Nesselhauf, U. Pfisterer, Christine Mühlhan, W. Renteln-Kruse","doi":"10.1080/19325614.2010.532289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325614.2010.532289","url":null,"abstract":"In some older artists with neurodegenerative dementia, the emergence of a new artistic style has been described (“Sick-Style”). “Old-Age-Style” characterizes the artistic development with aging. We sought to determine whether “Sick-Style” and “Old-Age-Style” are different or overlapping entities by two approaches: Five art historians were asked to rate the development from early to late works of seven older, cognitive healthy visual artists and three painters with Alzheimer's disease on a visual analogue scale for 18 criteria from the literature (7 for “Sick-Style,” 11 for “Old-Age-Style”). The works of the three artists with dementia reached significantly higher ratings on the “Sick-Style” items. The scoring for the “Old-Age-Style” criteria, however, varied widely for the different artists. They did not show differences between artists with and without dementia.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122732900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Humanizing “Alzheimer's” at the Opera: The Balance between Reductionist and Person-Centered Themes in Strawberry Fields","authors":"D. George, Susan E. Williams, Dean Southern","doi":"10.1080/19325614.2010.532292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325614.2010.532292","url":null,"abstract":"Alzheimer's disease has emerged as a major theme in recent motion pictures, literature, theater, and visual arts, but has not been a topic of significant import in the music world. Strawberry Fields, a one-act opera about a woman with mild dementia who wanders into the John Lennon memorial in Central Park expecting to see a Verdi opera, offers a surprisingly strong critique of reductionist approaches to brain aging, while also exploring themes central to the person-centered movement. This article contextualizes the decades-old debate between reductionism and person-centered dementia care, and explores how the opera balances elements of both movements.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127010382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Micronesia's Wartime Generation: Experiences and Memories","authors":"Lin Poyer, Suzanne Falgout, L. M. Carucci","doi":"10.1080/19325614.2010.532290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325614.2010.532290","url":null,"abstract":"In Micronesia, the years of World War II produced dramatic political, economic, and lifestyle shifts as Islanders experienced attacks and invasion, followed by a transition in governance. After more than three decades of colonial rule by Japan, the islands came under American control, first through military occupation administered by the U.S. Navy, then as a U.N. Trust Territory. This article examines how the impact of this historical moment—the transition in power due to military conquest—forever altered the lives of the generation that came to adulthood during the war years, and how that transition is encoded in memory.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127821113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Aesthetics of Natural Elderhood","authors":"P. Whitehouse, D. George","doi":"10.1080/19325614.2010.534725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325614.2010.534725","url":null,"abstract":"Elders have played a critical role in human evolution as keepers of stories and contributors to beauty in culture. In a fashion reflective of Gene Cohen's broadly integrative thinking about aging, we assert the importance of elders to the future of our species during this time of great social unrest and environmental challenges. A deeper ethics of aging is required which challenges simple scientific notions of aging as disease and decline and broadens the human dimension of wise elderhood.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121348583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Nursing Home as Village: Lessons from Ethnomusicology","authors":"Theresa A. Allison","doi":"10.1080/19325614.2010.529395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325614.2010.529395","url":null,"abstract":"Gene Cohen leaves us with a challenge: he has demonstrated that elders benefit from creative activities, but he has left unanswered the questions of how creativity fits into late-life learning and why it is important. In response, this article uses ethnomusicology, the study of music and culture, in order to uncover how nursing homes function as villages, and thereby makes explicit the reasons why music enables elders and their caregivers to create homes out of institutions. By recognizing the significance of music within institutions, we can lay the groundwork for more humane models of custodial care for our elders.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"151 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123395222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gene D. Cohen, MD, PhD: Creative Gero-Psychiatrist and Visionary Public Intellectual","authors":"W. Achenbaum","doi":"10.1080/19325614.2010.529391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325614.2010.529391","url":null,"abstract":"In the tradition of Lewis Thomas, MD and Robert N. Butler, MD, Gene Cohen, MD, PhD was a first-rate medical scientist whose legacy extends beyond his research and clinical practice. Dr. Cohen spurred extraordinary work with older people in the arts and humanities. And thanks to his zest for life and enthusiasm for others, Gene Cohen became a spokesperson for tapping the talents and wisdom of age.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133471223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Melissa Castora-Binkley, L. Noelker, T. Prohaska, W. Satariano
{"title":"Impact of Arts Participation on Health Outcomes for Older Adults","authors":"Melissa Castora-Binkley, L. Noelker, T. Prohaska, W. Satariano","doi":"10.1080/19325614.2010.533396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325614.2010.533396","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study was to present findings from a literature review on the documented health benefits of arts programs for older adults. A systematic literature review was conducted to examine research publications on participatory arts programs for older adults and their reported impact on health outcomes. A total of 2,205 articles were found. Of these, 11 were eligible for inclusion. The review describes the effects of participation in art programs on a variety of health outcomes. The small number of empirical studies documenting the health impact and limitations in their design prohibit broad generalizations, however, findings suggest there are physical and mental health benefits for older adults from arts participation.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130652456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dancing Vital Involvement: A Creative Old Age","authors":"H. Kivnick","doi":"10.1080/19325614.2010.537970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325614.2010.537970","url":null,"abstract":"Gerontological theorists describe both involvement and disinvolvement as part of developmental success in old age, and they identify both potentials and deficits as accompanying this final period of life. Community theorists cite society's need for elders' civic engagement, while acknowledging obstacles to such engagement. Arts advocates emphasize the unique value of high-quality arts participation in later life. This case study uses the construct of vital involvement as a framework for integrating these diverse perspectives, to consider and learn from the unique story of 90-year-old master dancer Yuriko. The study suggests practical, general applications of the clarity provided by the vital involvement construct and the life of this extraordinary elder role model.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129672920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}