Life Collage
Life Collage is a training program for staff or volunteers, ideally with some background and/or interest in the arts, who are working with well elders in senior centers, NORCs, and other community-based sites. In various training formats, ranging from 2-day trainings to 10-week trainings, ESTA trains professionals in a 5-step process to create collages rooted in life experience with elders. Once professionals complete training in Life Collage, they are equipped with the skills to run ongoing classes in Life Collage at their respective sites. Evaluated over a period of several years, the program has demonstrable, health promotion benefits. ESTA also offers training in Life Collage for professionals working with frail elders. For more information see Arts in Dementia Care.
