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Dedicated to promoting innovative solutions for aging well across generations
Knowledge.
Innovation.
Purpose.
Dedicated to promoting innovative solutions for aging well across generations
Purposeful Living Initiatives
The Aging Institute is dedicated to promoting innovative solutions for aging well across generations. As a vital resource for individuals, families, healthcare professionals, and caregivers, The Aging Institute acts as a community convener, collaborating with partners across various disciplines to advance the aging services sector.
Through the development of purposeful living initiatives, the sharing of exemplary practices, and groundbreaking research, The Aging Institute elevates awareness about living well longer. It educates, innovates, and inspires those committed to enhancing the quality of life for others.
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Newsworthy Projects
CCRC hopes new arts ‘prescription’ pilot program will lead to resident wellness model for industry
Residents of a North Carolina continuing care retirement community will be receiving “prescriptions” for artistic and creative engagement to test whether they enhance physical and cognitive well-being.
Southminster Launches Nation’s First “Creative Aging on Prescription” Study with Major Research University and National Arts & Aging Experts
Southminster just announced that it has embraced a unique opportunity to become a national leader in arts-integrated wellness within continuous care retirement communities (CCRCs). It is partnering with Lifetime Arts and Wake Forest University’s NeuroArts Lab to pilot the Creative Aging on Prescription initiative.
Best Practice Caregiving Resource: Two New Dementia Care Programs Added
Best Practice Caregiving (bpc.caregiver.org) has added two dementia care evidence-based programs to their resource database of proven dementia programs for family caregivers. The newly-added programs are Caregiver: Thrive, Learn and Connect (Caregiver TLC) and Tele-Savvy.
Purposeful Partnerships Advancing Aging Services Together
Evidence Based Research
Modeling Pathways by Which the Caregiver TLC Psychoeducational Program Affects Psychological Health of Caregivers
Background and Objectives The study seeks to elucidate the pathways by which the Caregiver TLC psycho-educational program impacts the psychological health of caregivers by examining the degree to which changes in self-efficacy, personal gains, and emotional support mediate the changes on perceived depression, anxiety and burden.
Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Family Caregivers of Persons Living with Dementia. pp. 295-311. In Davis, J., Salkovskis, P., Laidlaw, K. Beck, J.(Eds). Cambridge Guide to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Cambridge University Press.
This chapter describes the many ways in which CBT itself, as well as non-traditional CBT-based interventions, can improve the mental health of dementia family caregivers.
Cuidando Juntos: A Culturally Adapted Psychoeducation Program for Latino Dementia Caregivers
Objectives: This study describes the cultural adaptation of Cuidando Juntos (derived from the evidence-based Caregiver Thrive, Learn, Connect) for Latino dementia caregivers, guided by the Cultural Adaptation Behavioral Stage Model, and presents preliminary findings from a Stage Ia trial evaluating preliminary program acceptability.
Curating Community Conversations
Southminster curate’s experiences that celebrate aging with purpose and well-being. Interested in being our next leadership speaker?
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“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw
Southminster opens its first Intergenerational Playground in Charlotte, NC October 17, 2015
READ AARP article – Outdoor Fitness for Adults, Endless Recess