Resource Links
The Creative Caregiving Guide© (2023) is a free web-based, community-shared creative resource specially designed for both family and professional caregivers of adults who live with Alzheimer’s disease and related cognitive disorders. From the convenience of your own home, office, or care setting you can learn, experience, and share vibrant, research-based caregiving exercises that help you and your care partner weave creativity and renewal into your caregiving routines. Using any available computer, tablet or smart phone – or with your peers in caregiver support networks – you will develop skills, creative resources, and confidence to flourish throughout the caregiving process. Every learning session is crafted by master teaching artists to be simple, adaptable and fun.
Maria Genné was deeply involved in the development, creation and roll-out of this free, on-line resource over the past three years.
Creative Aging
- National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) KAIROS dance™ is listed in the NEA’s “Arts and Aging Resource List” and “Creativity and Aging Best Practices”
- Center on Aging, Health and Humanities, George Washington University
- Open Doors to Memory
- Time Slips, Creative Storytelling Project
- EngAGE, Los Angeles, CA
- Alzheimer’s Poetry Project
- Scripps Gerontology Center, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Arts in Healthcare
National Aging Organizations
- American Society on Aging (ASA) Kairos Alive! and Kairos Dancing Heart™ are discussed in the Spring 2006 issue the ASA journal, “Generations”. View Anne Basting’s article, “Arts in Dementia Care”
- National Council on Aging (NCOA)
- Gerontological Society of America (GSA)*
- Alzheimer’s Foundation of America*
Local Aging Organizations
- Care Providers of Minnesota *
- Vital Aging Network (VAN) *
- Alzheimer’s Association
- Care Options Network *
- ARTSAGE Minnesota
- ACT on Alzheimer’s
{*Kairos Alive! is a current member}