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	Creativity and Aging "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything" --- Plato "Creativity is to our personality what helium is to a balloon. It gives us the potential to expand. And once we're 'inflated' we never quite go back to the same old way of thinking." --- Jude Treder-Wolff, in Thinking On Your Feet Takes Improvisation...and Practice," Los Angeles Times, November 2000 *Reaching for Creativity* Judith Zausner writes about creativity and aging in this blog that appears in ELDR Magazine Studies Suggest There's An Art to Getting Older: Creative Activity May Have Health Benefits --- A recent article in the Washington Post that examines the positive effects of participation in creative activities Ageing Well is all skill and practice --- An editorial by author and surgeon Sherwin Nuland that discusses creativity in aging *Research on Creativity and Aging: The Positive Impact of the Arts on Health and Aging* Gene Cohen, director of the George Washington University Center on Aging, Health and the Humanities, reports on "The Creativity and Aging" study