IntroductionDavid Amigoni and Gordon McMullan The challenges of late-life creativityImagining otherwise: the disciplinary identity of gerontologyRuth RayThe singing voice in late lifeJane ManningCreative ageing: the social policy challengeSusan Hogan and Emily Bradfield Rethinking late styleTurner’s last works and his critics Sam SmilesConstructing a late style for David Bowie: old age, late-life creativity, popular cultureGordon McMullanAn ‘old man in the dimming world’: Theodor Adorno, Derek Walcott and a defence of the idea of late style Robert Spencer The varieties of late-life creativityLate-life creativity: assessing the value of theatre in later lifeMiriam Bernard and Michelle RickettLate-life creativity: methods for understanding arts-generated social capital in the lives of older people Jackie Reynolds‘It’s play, really, isn’t it?’: dress, creativity, old ageHannah Zeilig and Anna-Marie AlmiraVisual diaries, creativity and everyday life Wendy Martin and Katy PilcherSelf, civic engagement and late-life creativityAngela GlendenningNarrating dementiaA critical narrative on late-life creativity and dementia: integrating citizenship, embodiment and relationalityPia Kontos and Alisa Grigorovich‘The artistry of it all’: narrating The Tempest, dementia and the mapping of identity in a Manchester extrincare housing schemeLiz PostlethwaiteTerry Pratchett’s Living with Alzheimer’s as a case study in late-life creativityMartina ZimmermanNarratives as talking therapy: research with Sikh carers of a family member with dementia in Wolverhampton Karan Jutlla Old age, creativity and the late city‘Work, work, work and full steam ahead’: Ian McKay and the conserving radicalism of the Gorton Visual Art Group, public artists in later lifeJohn MilesThe late Peter Rice: late-style stories of ageing and the city in A Bright Past for Stoke on TrentDavid Amigoni