What We Do
Focusing our mission service on older adults and caregivers impacted by a range of aging-related physical and cognitive health conditions, Arts for the Aging’s multi-disciplinary, participatory, and inclusive arts experiences take place in cooperation with adult day centers, community centers, senior centers, continuing care retirement communities, memory cafes, affordable housing communities, and with museum, cultural, and academic institutions in Greater Washington D.C. Programming can include trainings for practitioners in our creative care-giving methodologies.
93%
Clients are satisfied with our programs
79%
Participants experienced joy at the program
81%
Participants expressed themselves creatively
69%
Participants interacted with others
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About Arts for the Aging
Our Programs
Our Teaching Artists
Arts for the Aging’s mission is to engage older adults and caregivers with diverse abilities and backgrounds in health improvement and life enhancement through regular participation in the multidisciplinary arts. Our goal is to stimulate minds, bodies, spirits and imaginations.
Arts for the Aging’s workshop curriculum is participatory and artist-led. It includes visual, musical, performing, literary, multidisciplinary, and intergenerational arts experiences. Our impact focuses primarily on older adults and caregivers impacted by a range of aging-related health conditions.
Programs take place in cooperation with community and residential care settings, and museum, cultural, and academic partners. They are led by a faculty of teaching artists that is grounded in diverse art forms and trained in our nationally recognized best-practices for healthy aging and caregiving.
About AFTA
Arts for the Aging’s mission is to engage older adults and care partners in health improvement and life enhancement through regular participation in the arts. Our goal is to stimulate minds, bodies, spirits and imaginations.
Our Programs
Our workshop curriculum is artist-led and includes visual, musical, performing, literary, multidisciplinary, and intergenerational arts experiences. Our impact focuses primarily on older adults with aging-related health conditions.
Our Teaching Artists
Programs are led in community and residential care settings, and in museums and cultural institutions, by an experienced faculty of teaching artists, grounded in diverse artistic specialties and trained in our nationally recognized best-practices.
News & Updates
Stay updated on Arts for the Aging’s current updates, as well as view articles in the broader news media related to “creative aging”. We’ve also included a range of toolkits and resources for those in the industry.