Aging In Community

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. 
  

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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.