Welcome to Living Over Aging Your web site for lifelong creativity, wellness and spirituality!
Living Over Aging is dedicated to a holistic concept of aging that incorporates a person's whole body, mind and spirit. In 2009 our themes are related to lifelong creativity through dance and the movement arts. Stay tuned for updated information and features!
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Then explore other areas of our site to begin to become aware of your aging process and how it can be an unlimited and boundless experience. You can live a long healthy life into older years and it begins by living well today.
Living Over Aging: Helping you age creatively day by day for a lifetime.
A New Day
This year is the ninth year that this web site has been online! We are in the process of revitalizing the focus of Living Over Aging (LOA) to feature content on lifelong creativity, dance and spiritual growth. Much has changed culturally since 2000 when this page was created. At that time, the initial “Internet Revolution” was still going strong. Web pages were being created with unprecedented growth and financial investment. Even though the “dot com bubble” burst in the early 2000s, the web continued to grow and the World Wide Web has become ubiquitous along with email, cell phones, social networking sites and more.
In this, the ninth year of LOA, we are also aware that the field of aging has evolved and our understanding of what it means to be older in America has changed since 2000. More older people are familiar with and participating in online activities. Younger generations are interacting more and more with older generations through email, text messaging and social networking sites. The Baby Boomer generation, the largest cohort in history, began to turn 60 years old in 2006 and will be turning 65 years old in 2011. Socially relevant topics like encouraging creativity in retirement, creative work opportunities for those who either want to work in their older years or must do so, and creating strong, socially-connected intergenerational communities are all increasingly significant, not only for older people but younger people too as they consider growing older in the future.
Expressing lifelong creativity, dancing and moving one’s body and nurturing ongoing spiritual growth are all definitions for being a “creative elder” in today’s world. With an eye for the future, LOA is committed to providing online content that supports these three primary goals for “creative elders” of many art forms:
1. Elder Arts: Encouraging lifelong creativity through all of the arts with the recognition that creative expression can be enhanced by being older and inspired by the aging process in many ways. 2. Elder Dance: Supporting the idea that dance and other movement arts (yoga, tai chi, etc) are not only or even primarily for younger people but for older people too. We will be developing a new way of looking at and expressing dance and movement in older years. 3. Elder Spirit: Fostering the notion of lifelong spiritual growth and that spirituality is an ongoing, life nurturing expression of a person’s spirit that evolves and grows over time and is not something static that is learned when a person is young and then never changes. Spirituality in older years can be enhanced by experiences a person only has when she or he is older and what is often called “old age” can create opportunities to inspire true wisdom for oneself and others.
We hope you like this new focus of LOA and will visit us more in the future as we too continue to grow and evolve over the coming weeks and months!
Our mission is to promote lifelong creativity and spiritual growth through the arts including dance and the movement arts!
Please visit us often for these benefits:
Read new content on our Elder Journal and other pages.
Review and purchase highly recommended books, music and videos on our Products pages.
And don't forget to email us to let us know you visited at our email address: loamail@yahoo.com
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