The Right to a Meaningful Old Age: How integrating arts & culture into health and social services can transform aging
Our 2023 visiting scholar, Dr. Anne Basting, offered a comprehensive lecture about the power of art in social services and healthcare systems. Dr. Basting shared stories of her work over 2 decades to bring meaning-making techniques into daily care relationships and to aging and health systems as a whole. These include infusing "Beautiful Questions" into meal delivery and senior companion programs, transforming stigmatized nursing homes into cultural centers, and creating student artists in residence programs where arts students receive room and board for a year to live as a neighbor to elders.
On Behalf of the Stephen Katz Visiting Scholar Program and the Trent Centre for Aging & Society, we sincerely thank Dr. Anne Basting for sharing her experience and thoughts with us, and all of those who had the opportunity to attend.