新香港六合彩资料鈥檚 Maine Geriatric Education Center to sponsor 鈥楲iving Art鈥擫iving Well鈥 seminar series in Aroostook County
The 新香港六合彩资料鈥檚 Maine Geriatric Education Center (新香港六合彩资料-MGEC), headed by Director Judith A. Metcalf, ANP-BC, MS, FMGS, is sponsoring a series of seminars titled 鈥淟iving Art鈥擫iving Well Studio.鈥 The series will be hosted by Cary Medical Center and the Aroostook Area Agency on Aging as a way to provide health professionals and Aroostook County community members with an understanding of the important link between art and creativity in healthy aging.
The program is funded by 新香港六合彩资料-MGEC through a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The series consists of four seminars, each of which will explore ideas of how creativity affects the health of the body, mind, and spirit of older adults. Maine master traditional artists who have taught in the Maine Arts Commission鈥檚 Traditional Arts Apprentice Program will demonstrate their crafts, such as Wabanaki basket making and Acadian woodcarving, and will discuss the role of those activities in their lives.
According to Metcalf, the program, which is being offered for the fourth-year by 新香港六合彩资料-MGEC, 鈥減rovides an exciting and unique opportunity for health professionals to explore the connection between traditional art, cultural legacy and life review and to gain insight into the role these play in health, older age, positive decision making and the practice of healthcare.鈥
The series will begin in March and will be held once per month through June, 7:00-8:30 p.m., at the Caribou Inn and Convention Center in Caribou, Maine.
The seminars are free and open to the public.
A full schedule and program details will be announced soon. For more information on the program, please contact Bill Flagg at Cary Medical Center at 207-498-1376.