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  • Wyoming Elderly Tough It Out Even As Younger Generations Migrate Away

    Melodie Edwards

    June 05, 2015 |

    Wyoming Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Dixon, Wyoming

    These days, most rural communities in the U.S. are elderly communities - 15 percent of Wyoming’s population is over 65 and a high percentage of them live on ranches in small towns. New caregiver programs allow seniors to continue living at home and to keep doing what they are able, with assistance provided if needed.

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  • Dutch nursing home offers rent-free housing to students

    Carey Reed

    April 05, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Deventer

    A Dutch nursing home brings together students and seniors with an innovative housing plan: offering rent-free apartments to students. In exchange, the students must partake in nursing home events for at least 30 hours per month as an effort to help bridge the generational gap and give senior residents a larger community.

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  • Seniors Flex Creative Muscles In Retirement Arts Colonies

    Ina Jaffe

    July 05, 2013 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Dissatisfied with the opportunities for residents of assisted living facilities to engage in creative pursuits, Tim Carpenter developed senior ‘art colonies’ that provided writing, performance, and visual arts classes. Equipped with studios and a performance space, artists work in the facility and double as instructors to residents. Residents are encouraged to set goals, take risks, and commit to learning new skills.

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  • For Healthy Aging, a Late Act in the Footlights

    Tina Rosenberg

    August 15, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Burbank, California

    Through the Burbank Senior Artists Colony - a community created by EngAGE - low-income seniors learn how to become artists. The recreational classes hosted by the community keep people feeling phsyically and mentally young, allowing them to focus on recreation instead of financial hardship.

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