The Vital & Vibrant Creative Aging Toolkit equips state and jurisdictional arts agencies with everything they need to champion and implement creative aging in their communities. These resources support state arts agencies in making the case, building the partnerships and launching the programs that help older adults thrive.
Vital is an issue awareness piece making the evidence based case that creative aging programs—arts based initiatives for older adults—deliver measurable physical and social health benefits while offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional health care interventions.
Vibrant is an action guide for state arts agencies that provides practical, step-by-step guidance on building the coalitions, convenings and collaborative frameworks needed to implement creative aging programs in communities across their states.
The Vital & Vibrant Messaging Matrix is a communication framework that provides state arts agencies with tailored key messages and talking points for engaging four distinct stakeholder audiences—State Units on Aging, Area Agencies on Aging, senior centers and community partners—in support of creative aging programs.
Vital & Vibrant: A Cross-Sector Working Session on Advancing Creative Aging is a customizable presentation designed to help state arts agencies convene diverse community stakeholders to build shared understanding of America’s aging demographic, the evidence base for creative aging and the collaborative partnerships needed to move from interest to coordinated action.
Vital & Vibrant: A Creative Aging Research Summary and Analysis synthesizes peer-reviewed studies and program evaluations to document the evidence base for creative aging, highlighting measurable improvements in physical health, cognitive function and social well-being among older adults who participate in structured, arts based programs.
The creation and publication of the Vital & Vibrant Creative Aging Toolkit is made possible by a generous grant from E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.