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Well Beyond 50
Building Community, Health and Well Being
Through Civic/Social and Creative Engagement
A Program by Seniors (50+), for Seniors
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
- Henri Bergson
 Well Beyond 50 will be a traveling troupe of novice and post-professional artists and dancers, ambassadors for healthy aging, intended to inspire others over 50 to move and create.
Well Beyond 50 will lead movement, art, music and writing programs at senior centers, assisted living facilities, and hospitals.
Well Beyond 50 is being formed in response to outcomes from a study conducted by Gene Cohen, M.D., PhD from George Washington University, sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts and five other organizations, validating the importance of creative engagement in later years. The study showed creative engagement in the arts and movement:
- Reduced medication use
- Reduced depression and substance abuse
- Led to better health and decreased pain
- Produced higher morale
- Reduced the risk factors associated with long-term care
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