... arts education programs. Overall, this chapter provides crucial theoretical foundations for understanding why and how the field of arts education needs to be reconceptualized for older adults. Johnson Perry adult learning Boyer J M folklore folk arts arts participation autobiographical memories...

...For much of the past half century, researchers at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have marshaled statistics about arts “supply and demand” in the United States—one thinks immediately of surveys tracking the public’s arts participation habits, or reports about the artist labor force...

...-based arts participation. Essential elements of a logic model are introduced in discussing how the benefits of the arts accrue to both individuals and communities as distinct societal impacts. The chapter concludes with introducing the authors’ 8Ps Framework for Arts in Healthy Aging...

... change strategy is influencing of public opinion and decision-making through arts activities; the community cultural development approach in which change occurs at a community level, as a result of creative social interaction between arts participants; and finally...

... The Cohen arts participation hierarchy of needs Maslow’s hierarchy of needs motivations for arts participation Alderfer C P culture healthy aging natural aging process Whole person chronic health conditions cognitive impairment emotional health physical health sensory loss social health...