"Believing in the vital relationship between creative expression and aging, the Center for Creative Aging - North Carolina strives to improve the quality of life for all older adults through education, training, and programming."

Located in Greensboro, the Center for Creative Aging - North Carolina (CCA-NC) is an emerging non-profit organization dedicated to creative aging. Creative aging simply means imaginative self-expression of all forms in the second half of life.

Creative self-expression encompasses the full range of human activities. It is not just painting, music, or dance. It can be quilting or knitting, wood-carving or gardening, baking or story-telling. Enabling older North Carolinians to create works that honor their life history and creative vision is a powerful step in validating their very existence. Creative self-expression stimulates thought, provides purpose, and offers a process of healing otherwise unknown. CCA-NC strives to increase access to creative opportunities for minority populations, low-income aged, and those with inhibiting medical conditions.

The Center for Creative Aging - North Carolina is a network organization of the National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA). The NCCA is committed to shaping the field of creative aging and each year the organization provides thousands of professionals in health care, social work, and the arts with the theoretical framework and hands-on skills needed to implement sustained, quality creative programs for older people.

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