Beyond words: caring and connecting in late life

2016-04-01

University of Virginia. School of Medicine

How might the creative arts, as a symbolic and emotional language, help improve well-being in late life? Anne Basting is an acclaimed practitioner and advocate of using the arts to address issues in aging. In this Medical Center Hour, she explores her own creative research and the most promising new practices for improving the lives of elders and caregivers alike.

The Koppaka Family Foundation Lecture in the Medical Humanities
Co-presented with the Southern Gerontological Society Annual Meeting

Basting, Anne Davis, 1965- (Speaker); Childress, Marica Day (Moderator); University of Virginia. School of Medicine

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Filmed lectures

Arts--Therapeutic use; Theater and older people; Long-term care facilities--Recreational activities; Dementia--Patients--Care

Medical Center Hour

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

English

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