Aging In Community Events

Find events near you. Use the contact form on the right to tell us about additional ones.

Feb 7-8: BIL (Long Beach, CA)

Feb 7-8: BIL (Long Beach, CA)

Will you join me there in Long Beach February 7-8 for this interactive BarCamp-style "unconference" discussion? What would you like to talk about? Add suggestions using the contact box at the right of the page.

Feb 8: Elders' Guild (Berkeley, CA)

Feb 8: Elders' Guild (Berkeley, CA)

The Elders' Guild is a grass-roots organization that is creating a bold new vision to help us prepare forcommunityactivism and deep life-long learning for the rest of our lives.

Our vision is a world in which empowered and conscious elders join together in common purpose to bring healing,joy and connection to our lives, our families, our communities and theworld.

Our mission is to create the communities where we re-imagine our old age,look after one another and embody the wisdom that will enable us to help heal the future.

Our goal is to help us prepare for a meaningful role as elders in society even though we have been conditioned to expect diminished strength and capacity. 


We ended 2008 with three strong workshops focussing on each of of our three Elders' Guild Foundations: CommunityWisdom and Championing the Future. At our last regular Sunday afternoon gathering in November, there was a strong feeling that we should meet at least twice a month. So we've arranged to add a second gathering in January and each month hereafter.

Everyone is welcome to participate. 
The Elders' Guild is Multi-Generational and Multi-Cultural

Click here for details / RSVP

Feb 12: Project Renewment (Berkeley, CA)

Live webinar sponsored by the American Society on Aging's Business Forum on Aging, projected with participant engagement.

We will be hosting in downtown San Francisco as well as Berkeley, CA:

http://www.meetup.com/Aging-In-Community/calendar/9628917/

The American Society on Aging's Business Forum on Aging (BFA) and Planning for Sustainable Communities presents a live webcast viewing in downtown Berkeley: 
Project Renewment™: Concerns, Strategies & Issues for Career Women 55+

In this web seminar, the first in the BFA Aging and Business Webinar Series,Helen Dennis and Bernice Bratter will explore the revolutionary concept of renewment.

February 12, 2009 -- 10:00-11:00 AM PST (with local introductions before the national webcast starts and local discussion to follow)

For the first time in history, millions of career women are facing retirement -- with no role models. As in the 1960s, they ask once again, "Is this all there is?" This web seminar will highlight Project Renewment, which provides a forum for career women 55 and older. These women use their strategic thinking, creativity and vision to forge new directions for their future.

Participants will learn:

  • what aging service professionals should know about this cohort as a potential target group for services as well as a resource to aging services. 
  • how these considerations and realities will affect us personally as professionals looking forward to our own next chapter. 
  • strategies that can provide a resource for employers assisting career women in a time of change. 


Presenters: Helen Dennis, Specialist on aging, employment & retirement; and Bernice Bratter, Specialist on women’s issues & aging, LMFC; co-authors of the bestselling book, Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women (Scribner 2008).

Helen and Bernice provide a driving force behind the national "Project Renewment" movement – a growing community of women’s groups where career women explore in a non-judgmental, supportive setting the issues, challenges and opportunities they see ahead of them for the next 30 years of their lives.

Whether you already offer programs serving career women or are simply curious how they might fit into your organization’s plans for the future, we invite you to participate in this online workshop. After Helen and Bernice present, there will be time for your questions and comments. Please join us.

Feb 22: Elders' Guild (Berkeley, CA)

Feb 22: Elders' Guild (Berkeley, CA)

The Elders' Guild is a grass-roots organization that is creating a bold new vision to help us prepare forcommunityactivism and deep life-long learning for the rest of our lives.

Our vision is a world in which empowered and conscious elders join together in common purpose to bring healing,joy and connection to our lives, our families, our communities and theworld.

Our mission is to create the communities where we re-imagine our old age,look after one another and embody the wisdom that will enable us to help heal the future.

Our goal is to help us prepare for a meaningful role as elders in society even though we have been conditioned to expect diminished strength and capacity. 


We ended 2008 with three strong workshops focussing on each of of our three Elders' Guild Foundations: CommunityWisdom and Championing the Future. At our last regular Sunday afternoon gathering in November, there was a strong feeling that we should meet at least twice a month. So we've arranged to add a second gathering in January and each month hereafter.

Everyone is welcome to participate. 
The Elders' Guild is Multi-Generational and Multi-Cultural

Click here for details / RSVP

Mar 8: Elders' Guild (Berkeley, CA)

Mar 8: Elders' Guild (Berkeley, CA)

The Elders' Guild is a grass-roots organization that is creating a bold new vision to help us prepare forcommunityactivism and deep life-long learning for the rest of our lives.

Our vision is a world in which empowered and conscious elders join together in common purpose to bring healing,joy and connection to our lives, our families, our communities and theworld.

Our mission is to create the communities where we re-imagine our old age,look after one another and embody the wisdom that will enable us to help heal the future.

Our goal is to help us prepare for a meaningful role as elders in society even though we have been conditioned to expect diminished strength and capacity. 


We ended 2008 with three strong workshops focussing on each of of our three Elders' Guild Foundations: CommunityWisdom and Championing the Future. At our last regular Sunday afternoon gathering in November, there was a strong feeling that we should meet at least twice a month. So we've arranged to add a second gathering in January and each month hereafter.

Everyone is welcome to participate. 
The Elders' Guild is Multi-Generational and Multi-Cultural

Click here for details / RSVP

Mar 15-19: Aging In America (Las Vegas, NV)

Mar 15-19: Aging In America (Las Vegas, NV)

Aging in America, the 2009 Annual Conference of the American Society on Aging and the National Council on Aging takes place March 15-19 in Las Vegas. The ASA-NCOA Conference, with nearly 4,000 attendees, is recognized as a showcase for programs and projects that can be replicated, a forum for policy discussion and advocacy, and a prime source of information on new research findings in aging. It is the largest gathering of a diverse, multidisciplinary community of professionals from the fields of aging, healthcare and education, along with business leaders from across the United States.

Attendees come from around the country and abroad to find the answers, the experts, the research, the best practices, and the most comprehensive educational offerings available to professionals. It is the place to be if you want to learn about what’s new, what works, and how you can make it work to respond to the ever-growing demands of serving an aging population. The conference provides attendees with the opportunity to network with new and old friends, gain insight from voices from the front line and find new grassroots and national partners for advocacy.

We may have some exhibit passes available to people interested in volunteering. Contact us for more info.

Mar 22: Elders' Guild (Berkeley, CA)

Mar 22: Elders' Guild (Berkeley, CA)

The Elders' Guild is a grass-roots organization that is creating a bold new vision to help us prepare forcommunityactivism and deep life-long learning for the rest of our lives.

Our vision is a world in which empowered and conscious elders join together in common purpose to bring healing,joy and connection to our lives, our families, our communities and theworld.

Our mission is to create the communities where we re-imagine our old age,look after one another and embody the wisdom that will enable us to help heal the future.

Our goal is to help us prepare for a meaningful role as elders in society even though we have been conditioned to expect diminished strength and capacity. 


We ended 2008 with three strong workshops focussing on each of of our three Elders' Guild Foundations: CommunityWisdom and Championing the Future. At our last regular Sunday afternoon gathering in November, there was a strong feeling that we should meet at least twice a month. So we've arranged to add a second gathering in January and each month hereafter.

Everyone is welcome to participate. 
The Elders' Guild is Multi-Generational and Multi-Cultural

Click here for details / RSVP

Mar 30: Village Models (Oakland, CA)

Beacon Hill Village is organizing a conference in Oakland for March 30. Stay tuned for details.

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