Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Aging

This two-day, non-recurring meeting will accomplish two goals: 1. To convene a think tank for researchers, practitioners, and creative and performing artists from across Canada to exchange knowledge about the demonstrated benefits of how engagement in a diverse array of arts forms improves the health and well-being of adults 65+, and; 2. Drawing on the Sheridan Elder Research Centre (SERC) dance program as a prototype, to establish a new research team to plan a national, multi-site research study to determine, among other things, whether the SERC results generalize to other settings. The team will begin to plan a submission for a full CIHR operating grant.