Two articles, one by Amanda Alders Pike and the other
by Raquel Chapin Stephenson, call our attention to the
cognitive, social, and spiritual benefits of the arts for older
adults. Mindfulness is particularly well suited to later years
when a person naturally slows down physically and perceptually.
Life becomes more transparent, as some part of
the self seeks connection to an underlying unity that is the
ground of all being. Thus did Joan Erickson, wife and collaborator
with Eric Erickson on the stage theory of adult