May 2019
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Older people’s culture represents a synthesis of many existential problems and a basic universal factor. Psychological researches show that all people possess creative skills, up until the end of life. Culture and creativity may facilitate aging and help develop a model for cross-generational relationships. In old age, many people may discover the desire to explore new creative, affective and relational spaces. Creativity qualifies many elders’ lives. For many famous artists, creativity contributed to improve their quality of life in the last years. On the edge of life, ultimate creativity may find peace, not as the end of struggling, but as its absence. So, it may bring up memories and biographical stories, opening new perspectives for the new generations. The relationship between grandchildren and grandparents seems to reconcile nature and culture, develop creativity, clarify and separate technological knowledge and human knowledge and improve the quality of life itself.