Expressive arts with elders : a resource / edited by Naida Weisberg and Rosilyn Wilder.

London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001.

282 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

First edition published as Creative arts with older adults by Human Sciences Press, 1985.

Copy 1. Donor: Arts for Health.

Empathic connections / Stanley H. Cath -- Why some older persons disconnect / George S. Sigel -- Editors' introduction / Naida Weisberg and Rosilyn Wilder -- Approaches to training and curriculum design in the visual arts for the elderly / Pearl Greenberg -- 'To be remembered ... ' Addendum: thoughts of the millennium / Georgiana Jungels -- 'Can you grab a star?' Dance and movement in a senior resource center / Jocelyn Helm -- 'My cheeks are rosy anyway: I can't be dead' A multi-arts program in a mental institution / Dorothy Jungels with John Belcher -- First encounters / Naida Weisberg and Rosilyn Wilder -- Life journeys: the STOP-GAP method with elders / Don R. Laffoon, Victoria Bryan, and Sherry Diamond -- ' ... Secrets I never told before ... ' Creative drama and drama therapy with handicapped elders / Rose Pavlow -- A tapestry of voices: from interview to script / Bernice Bronson -- Youth and elders inter-act / Rosilyn Wilder -- What does it mean to be Hispanic in Rhode Island? The oral history/life story theatre project / Naida Weisberg -- The folk-tale as catalyst / Rose Pavlow -- Older adults are total people / Marian Palmer -- A route to the heart in a short-term hospital setting / Christoph Grieder -- 'We've no less days ... ' Music as an activity in nursing home and senior center / Delight Lewis Immonen -- Is it literature, is it art? Writing workshops with literate and illiterate / Laura Fox -- The creative powers within us a philosophy and a rationale / Marilyn Barsky -- Invocations of group process and leadership / Marc Kaminsky.

Includes bibliographical references and index.