April 24, 2020 – Amid reports of death and isolation, some older New Yorkers are modeling strength and resilience. The New York Times’ John Leland reports: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/nyregion/coronavirus-elders-nyc.html?referringSource=articleShare
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Just What Older People Didn’t Need: More Isolation
April 13, 2020 – The coronavirus pandemic could sharpen the health risks of loneliness. But there are ways to connect. The New York Times’ Paula Span reports: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/health/coronavirus-elderly-isolation-loneliness.html
What’s Lost in the Rush to Online Learning
March 31, 2020 – “Building distance learning systems is not for the faint of heart. In theory, they can help make learning more accessible for more people, but not in an overnight crash situation like many are facing.” CNN’s David M. Perry reports: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/business/online-learning-virus.html
Online Learning Should Return to a Supporting Role
April 9, 2020 – Winner-take-all economics and cost-cutting may make many in-person lectures obsolete, but the best education continues to be intensive, expensive and done in person. The New York Times’ David Deming reports: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/business/online-learning-virus.html
She’s Alone, 105 and in a Nursing Home Threatened by the Virus
March 31, 2020 – The New York Times’ John Leland reports, “New York’s nursing homes have long been chronically understaffed, leaving family members to fill critical gaps, from feeding their relatives to checking for bedsores or infection. Now those family members are barred from entry, and existing workers are getting sick, quarantined or quitting because …
11 Tips for Maintaining a Creative Practice, When Home Is Your Studio
The following is a post published by Pratt Institute to aid their student and faculty communities during COVID-19. The tips are universally relevant for anyone who wants to create at home. “COVID-19 has quickly changed the way we study, teach, and create. As students, faculty, staff, and alumni in the Pratt Institute community are now …
Senior centers face tough decisions during coronavirus outbreak
March 12, 2020 – The Upper West Side (NYC) senior center, DOROT, shut down all programming in its physical site. WNYC’s Gwynne Hogan reports: https://www.wnyc.org/story/senior-centers-face-tough-decisions-during-coronavirus-outbreak/
Now is Not the Time to Sever the Ties that Bind Generations
From Generations United, March 13, 2020: “It’s too early to know if social isolation or the Coronavirus (COVID-19) will kill more older adults in the long run. A heightened awareness of how a lack of social connection negatively impacts individuals as they age and their networks diminish has fueled a significant interest in intergenerational programming …
Seniors, Deemed Most Vulnerable to Virus, Grapple with ‘Social Distancing’
The Boston Globe, March 13, 2020 “With health authorities warning that the novel coronavirus poses a higher risk to older adults, many seniors are adjusting to a new reality, where gatherings they’d looked forward to are cancelled, and daily activities can feel fraught with risk.” Visit The Boston Globe website to read the article
The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, and Online Collections
Access the collections and learning resources from museums around the world. This collection was assembled by MCN.
Museum Arts Culture Access Consortium
MAC have created this webpage to link you to as many at-home learning resources and activities being offered by NYC cultural institutions and beyond as possible. The list includes resources for families, individuals, teachers, and people with disabilities. They link to many institutions’ current offerings (including live streams from the MET opera) as well as podcasts and …
10* 10* 10*: Free Poetry Workshops with Dave Johnson
Beginning on Monday, March 23, and running for the next 10 days through April 3, Lifetime Arts Roster Artist Dave Johnson is partnering with Poets House to host 10-minute poetry workshops at 10AM EST. During the workshop, you will write a quick poem with him each morning and share it. At the end of 10 …
