1. Circumventing Social Isolation though Creative Aging Communities in Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Presented at the 41st Annual Meeting & Educational Leadership Conference of The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE), February 26, 2015 to March 1, Nashville Tennessee.
Linda “Mariposa” Marangia, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
The Metropolitan State College of Denver
Denver, Colorado 80217

2. "Silver Tsunami” in Colorado
…….”The largest number of older adults lived in the inner cities before the 1970s, because the young adults were moving to the new suburbs in the '50s and '60s.
Now that those young adults are aging in place, suburban America faces a seismic shift, and trends like retrofitting suburbia are already popping up in places like Wheat Ridge, trends which has the highest proportion of seniors in Jefferson County, which in turn has the state's largest older population.”…… (Colorado's cities and counties prepare for the "Silver Tsunami”State's aging baby boomers expected to double by By Colleen O'Connor) The Denver Post Posted:  ( 03/30/2014 )

3. Wheat Ridge, Colorado
65 years or older account for 18.6 percent of the city’s population of 31,000
Ranked fifth on” Best Places to Retire in the United States.” (“Livability’s 2014 Best Places to Retire list”)

4. National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA)
(Founded by Dr. Gene Cohen: The Creative Age and Susan Perlstein: Elders Share the Arts
National service organization dedicated to fostering the relationship between creative expression and healthy aging.

5. Community Services for Creative Aging ---in Wheat Ridge Colorado, and immediate vicinity
Senior Center Theater
Historical Character Enactment
Readers’ Theater
Laughter Jam Sessions
Outdoor Sketch and Paint Rambles
Sponsors: Highland Senior Recreation Center;
Wheat Ridge Active Adult Center

6. Historical Character Enactment
--Tempest Storm Role, by
Virginia Auge.
Denver, Colorado
Other Roles include:
Mollie Brown;
Mattie Silks;
Mamie Eisenhower;
Tokyo Rose

7. The Highlands Senior Center Players Director and Producer: Jan De Luna, Denver Colorado
Production of Scrooge
Other Productions include: Arsenic and Lace; You Can’t Take it With You; The Odd Couple; Wizard of Oz; A Lot for Sale (forthcoming, and written by a Troupe member)

8. “A Lot For Sale”
Forthcoming original “message “ play written by Highland’s Troupe Player, Daniel Angel Martinez Excerpt from the play: Who knows you deep inside? Is there something that you denied? You and only you have the key. To set the inner child free……

9. Readers’ Theater Directed and Produced by Tricia Ferlic, Wheat Ridge Colorado

10. Laughter Jam Sessions Leaders: Dr
Laughter Jam Sessions Leaders: Dr. David and Tricia Ferlic Wheat Ridge, Colorado

11. Urban Sketch and Paint Rambles in Wheat Ridge, CO,
And Vicinity.
W. Courtney Armstrong
Eleisa Marsala Trampler
Lorrie Harness
Norman Ziegler
Henry Anderson
Diane Potter