Residents enjoyed a wonderful afternoon reading with some of their grandchildren and visiting neighborhood elementary school children, making flower pots, getting temporary tattos, doing a tissue paper craft, and making cookies. The kids told funny stories and made the residents smile.
~ Jennifer Fallon, Program Coordinator
EngAGE offers a variety of classes, workshops, and special programs at each
of our communities. These posts highlight just a small sample.
Each year, you have a chance to make changes to your Medicare/Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug coverage for the following year. There are 2 separate enrollment periods:
Open Enrollment Period for Medicare Advantage and Medicare prescription drug coverage: October 15–December 7
Medicare Advantage Disenrollment Period: January 1–February 14
Get details here about exactly what you can do during these periods.
Compare plans yourself using a short assessment questionnaire created by the non-profit National Council on Aging—a trusted resource for Medicare information for 50 years. It can help you:
Please note that your answers are anonymous and will only be used to help you compare plans and access Medicare resources. Click here to use the questionnaire. Learn more about Medicare at My Medicare Matters: National Council on Aging.
CREATIVITY
The ladies of Polet Zargarian’s Art Class continue to take on new creative challenges and grow. Grace has grown so much as an artist, she now churns out really wonderful paintings. She is proficient with more technical skill, but what’s emerging is an artistic soul. She captures a feeling, she embraces a fear and expresses it through her charcoals, pencils, or paint. You can see it on her face when she works; there is more at work here than the singularity of Grace; there is passion and perspective, a storm, a happening, an outpouring of her life.
~ Elizabeth Sampson, Regional Programs Director
EngAGE offers a variety of classes, workshops, and special programs at each
of our communities. These posts highlight just a small sample.
Want to learn how to take public transportation in Los Angeles? On the Move Riders Club connects you to new friends who can teach you about going Metro. Learn from peers who know the ins and outs of getting around on public transportation, then take a test ride together. Club activities are tailored to each group, and can range from group sightseeing trips to one-on-one training for outings to the store, to the doctor or anywhere else you want to go. Learn more and get a list of active clubs here. Most are based at neighborhood senior centers.
You can also attend the Older Adults Transportation Expo presented by Metro On The Move Riders Club on Tuesday, October 4th from 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM at Union Station Ticketing Hall, 800 N. Alameda St. in Los Angeles. In addition to learning the ins and outs of the Metro system, you’ll learn about the public art on display at Metro stops as well as how Metro Security and Law Enforcement works. A Continental breakfast will be offered to all registered participants. Learn more and register here.
“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you
previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun!
From 10/6/15:
In a recent email newsletter, writer Ashton Applewhite proudly announced:
I finally made it into Playboy.
Not because I hired a professional photographer—hope you like the photo on my new banner—but I’ll take it. Last March I got an email from an editor at Playboy who’d come across comedian Bill Maher’s rant about ageism being “the last socially sanctioned prejudice.” Would I be interested in writing a short essay on the subject? You bet, and here it is (“Why Can’t Jerry Brown Be President”). Another piece is coming out this month in Generations, the journal of the American Society on Aging. My editor there figured it was “likely a first, one of our writers being in both of those publications at the same time! Hah.” Hah indeed!
Learn more about Ashton Applewhite on her website, This Chair Rocks, and hear what she thinks about aging in this brief video (2:27). [Hat tip to EngAGE Founder and Executive Director Tim Carpenter for the link.]
On Tuesday, October 4th, EngAGE Founder and Executive Director Tim Carpenter and EngAGE Chief Administrative Officer Nancy Goodhart will be guests on Jefferson Exchange, a lively talk and call-in program heard on 12 frequencies across Southern Oregon and Northern California on Jefferson Public Radio’s News and Information Service. The Jefferson Exchange is live 8-10 AM PT, replayed 8-10 PM. Listen live on one of the JPR stations, via livestream online, or hear the podcast later the same day. UPDATE: Listen to podcast here.
Tune in to Experience Talks, our weekly “Radio Magazine for the Experienced Listener,” on Sundays at 5:00 PM PT on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, 99.5 China Lake, 93.7 N. San Diego, streaming live online, and now syndicated on up to 100 Pacifica Network stations! Experience Talks is produced by the non-profit EngAGE, Inc.
Miss the show? You can always hear it as a podcast on the Listen Page of our website! You’ll also find an archive-in-progress of all of our previous shows there for you to enjoy. New shows are usually posted within 48 hours after broadcast.
Special Announcement from JILL WEISS IPPOLITO
Jill experienced the healing power of yoga firsthand. She became a yoga teacher so she could pass that power along to others who needed it. In 2011, she founded UpRising Yoga (URY) and began teaching weekly yoga life skills in juvenile detention facilities. URY expanded quickly to bring yoga classes to communities with no access to yoga. URY now employs many yoga teachers and offers over 40 free yoga classes a month to diverse populations across Southern California. Jill has educated hundreds of yoga instructors, childcare providers, mental health professionals, and educators through her Trauma Informed Yoga Trainings. These trainings have become part of a mandatory curriculum for probation officers who work with incarcerated youth. She has been on the forefront of the effort to change probation culture from punitive to restorative by being a vocal advocate to reform the juvenile justice system. (See announcement below.)
UpRising Yoga’s public yoga classes are held at SBCC Wilmington Tues & Thurs 9-10am, Zelda Davis on Thurs in Hawthorne 10:30a-11:30p, Long Beach Thursday, Carson Tuesday see full schedule at: www.UpRisingYoga.org
Meg Newhouse
MARGARET L. (MEG) NEWHOUSE, Passion & Purpose LifeCrafting, Weston, MA – Meg is the founder of LPN, a founding member of CEN, and the author of Legacies of the Heart: Living a Life That Matters (2016). She is an independent educator, certified life coach, consultant, presenter and author, specializing in vision and values-based life crafting for the post-midlife “bonus years.” The current focus of her workshops and writing is legacy. This work has intensified her professional and personal engagement in conscious elderhood/sage-ing, with its potential for transforming our society.
Meg founded and co-led the Life Planning Network, a community of professionals practicing/promoting holistic planning for the second half of life. She also helped plan five Positive Aging Conferences and co-edited Live Smart After 50 (2013). She has enjoyed five “career-lets,” using her PhD in untraditional ways, mostly in academic settings. Meg is a former volunteer community mediator, a long-time committed amateur flutist and yoga practitioner, and a devoted long-distance grandmother of three (almost four).
Learn more at www.passionandpurpose.com and at www.megnewhouse.com.
