Aging and Creativity

Kenneth Gilhooly Mary Gilhooly
Elsevier S&T
284 pages
ISBN: 9780128164013
August 2021

This book examines the effects of aging on creative functioning, including age-related changes in cognition, personality, and motivation that affect performance or output. Changes in working memory, speed of processing, learning efficiency, and retrieval from long-term memory are all discussed as factors influencing creativity, as are health changes and changes in social roles with later age. It concludes with practical implications of age effects on creativity for older people in work and everyday life.