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What Kind of Old Would You Like to Be? Mike White on Art and Older People

posted on March 15, 2025

“What kind of old would you like to be? Exergetic, enthusiastic and vibrant, or lonely, reclusive and bored? We want to be the best, but how? The answer is art, says Mike White, a senior research fellow in arts in health at the University of Durham…” Read more from “The Art of Living Well as We Age” (Rachel Borrill, The Irish Examiner, 8 June 2012) below.

Filed Under: Arts In Health, Thought Piece

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