Based on 30 years of research and creative practice, Basting invites us all to imagine how infusing creativity and meaning-making into social and health care systems can transform well-being for care providers and recipients alike. With advances in research in the neuroarts on brain plasticity and social connection, the sustainable integration of arts and health is now possible.
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Anne Basting is a writer, artist and advocate for the power of creativity to transform our lives. She is Emerita Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and Founder of the award-winning non-profit , which inspires and supports the infusion of creativity and meaning-making into care systems.
Her writing and large-scale public performances have helped shape an international movement to extend creative and meaningful expression from childhood, where it is expected, through late life, where it has been too long withheld.
Her books include Creative Care: A Revolutionary Approach to Elder and Dementia Care (Harper), Penelope: An Arts-based Odyssey to Transform Eldercare (U of Iowa), and Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia (Johns Hopkins). Internationally recognized for her speaking and her innovative work, Anne is the recipient of a MacArthur 鈥淕enius鈥� Fellowship, and numerous major awards and grants. She believes that creative engagement can and should be infused into every care system and has trained/consulted with Meals on Wheels, libraries, home care companies, senior centers, memory cafes, museums, adult day programs and every level of long-term care.
Anne is currently at work on multiple projects including the Memory Cafe Alliance, an effort to sustainably grow the memory cafe infrastructure across the United States.
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