Events Calendar
- September 10, 2010 - Friday
- Advisory Council Outreach & Advocacy Committee Meeting
- Location: Seattle Municipal Tower, 40th Floor, Room 4050
- Time: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
- The joint meeting of the Outreach & Advocacy Committee and the Health Care Task Force. For more information contact Doug Ricker @ 206-684-0292.
- ADS Advisory Council Meeting
- Location: Seattle Municipal Tower, 40th Floor, Room 4050
- Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
- Contact Gigi Meinig @ 206-684-0652 for more information.
- September 15, 2010 - Wednesday
- Aging at Home Initiative
- Location: The Brig at Magnuson Park, building 406, 6344 NE 74th St, Seattle
- Time: 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
The Healthy Aging Partnerhsip's (HAP) Aging at Home Initiative can help your community! Please encourage teams of 2-5 older adults in your community to participate by attending a free one-day Aging at Home workshop.
Participants will learn about Aging at Home from experts in the areas of healthy living, emergency preparedness, lifelong learning, and civic engagement/volunteerism. Workshop participants will also learn about grant funding available for teams of older adults that want to make Aging at Home a reality in their own communities. After the workshop, teams of older adults will have the an opportunity to apply for up to $5,000 to implement an Aging at Home project that meets their community's needs.
You may register for the free September 15th workshop here:
http://aarpwa-agingathomeworkshop.eventbrite.com/There is information about HAP's Aging at Home initiative and the grant application here: http://4elders.org/
HAP's Aging at Home Initiative is supporting people who plan to grow older in their homes and stay active in their communities. Please join us in this fun and rewarding work!
- Walk N Roll 2010 - Sounds Steps End of Summer Funwalk
- Location: Seward Park, Seattle
- Time: 9:30 AM
The Fifth Annual “end of summer” Sound Steps funwalk at Seward Park will feature music, games, snacks and prizes, all especially for adults age 50+. Walkers can choose to walk 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2 or 2.5 miles around the Seward Park loop. Suggested donation of $1 - $20 helps support the Sound Steps monthly hiking program, and programs at the Southeast Senior Center. Receive a pair of quality walking socks with your donation of $5 or more! Register by September 8 to ensure your walking socks; day-of-event registration also accepted.
Contact Mari Becker @ 206-684-4664 or sound.steps@seattle.gov for more information.
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- September 16, 2010 - Thursday
- ADS Sponsors Meeting
- ADS Sponsors meet on third Thursday of the month. Contact Jane Crum at 206-684-0648 for information on meeting time and location.
- LGBT Elder Summit
- Location: ACRS, 3639 MLK Jr WayS, Seattle
- Time: 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
- The summit will be a discussion, think tank and learning experience to make services for LGBTQ elders in all cultures, accessible and safe in health care and social Services, housing, and all walks of life. Keynote speaker will be Grethe Cammermeyer, and there will be two panels of community, professionals and funders discuss what they have been doing and what we hope to do in the future.
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- Preventing Foreclosure & Loan Modification Scams in Washington State
- Location: Cedarbrook Lodge, Lily Room, 18525 36th Ave S, Seattle 98188
- Time: 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
- "Don’t Be Fooled! Preventing Foreclosure & Loan Modification Scams in Washington State" is a no-cost event sponsored by the FDIC. Housing counseling agencies, community-based groups, faith-based leaders, and organizations serving seniors are cordially invited to attend a symposium to learn about the legitimate and free resources available to keep your clients and congregants out of the grasp of scammers.
Space is limited, so please R.S.V.P. as soon as possible. R.S.V.P. using registration form below, or email to SFCommunityAffairs@FDIC.gov or fax to Monée Boswell at 415-808-7937. - View More Information
- Coffee Hour @ the Mayor's Office for Senior Citizens
- Location: Central Building, 810 3rd Avenue (downtown Seattle between Columbia & Marion)
- Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- Featuring Sally J. Clark, Seattle City Council. The Mayor's Office for Senior Citizens Coffee Hour series brings older adults and City decision makers closer together to discuss issues of mutual concern. Dates and speakers subject to change.
Call 206-684-0500 for more information. - Serving Our Homeless Elderly
- Location: Puget Sound Regional Council Board Room, 5th Floor, 1011 Western Ave, Seattle
- Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Join us for a conversation about Serving Our Homeless Elderly. Discussion will include demographics, trends, geriatric service needs, successful approaches, and challenges and opportunities within King County’s Ten Year Plan.
The event is an effort by the Senior Housing and Supportive Services partnership whose purpose is to increase the awareness of the need for housing to meet the needs of elders through the lifespan; develop the connections to enable necessary supportive services delivery; and strengthen residents’ ability to age in the place they call home.
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- The Gathering Place: Open House and Information Session
- Location: Greenwood Senior Center, 525 N. 85th St, Seattle
- Time: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
An afternoon program for those living with early stage memory loss. The Gathering Place takes place on the first and third Thursdays from 1-4 PM and includes:
- Exercise and movement including line dancing, strength training and yoga.
- Discussion
- Creative Expression
- Social connection
- Delicious and healthy afternoon refreshments.
Attend the information session and open house to learn more about this warm and inviting program for those living with ESML
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- September 17, 2010 - Friday
- Mayor's Council on African American Elders (MCAAE)
- Location: Seattle Municipal Tower, Room 5190
- Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
- Monthly meeting for the Mayor's Council on African American Elders (MCAAE). For more information contact Karen Winston @ 206-684-0706.
- September 18, 2010 - Saturday
- Letting Grow: Grief and Loss Support Group for People with Developmental Disabilities
- Location: Providence Hospice of Seattle, 425 Pontius Ave N, Seattle 98109
- Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
- Letting Grow: Affirming the Grief Within is a support group for people with developmental disabilities who lost their loved ones. This free grief and loss support group meets six times a year and is facilitated by an experienced social worker and her team at Providence Hospice. For more information, call Clarice Redmond @ 206-320-7157.
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- September 23, 2010 - Thursday
- Aging Your Way: Conversations for Community Change
- Location: Fauntleroy Church, 9140 California Ave SW, Seattle
- Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
- Baby Boomers and other younger-thinking older adults are already re-designing their communities to support them as they age. Senior Services is bringing community gatherings to neighborhoods around King County.
Join us at an event in your neighborhood to develop your vision and ideas, and work on implementing them! Jim Diers, community development expert and professional facilitator, leads participants in identifying what they care about and creating their vision of what their community will need to look like. Action teams are formed and people are empowered to use their skills, knowledge and passion to make their vision a reality. - View More Information
- September 24, 2010 - Friday
- Healthy Aging in Healthy Communities
- Location: SeaTac Holiday Inn
- Time: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
- The 2010 WAHA Healthy Aging Summit - Healthy Aging in Healthy Communities - will bring together teams of older adults, caregivers, and professionals from a wide variety of fields, who share the same mission "to create communities where all can age well."
Featured presenters include Jim Diers and Anne Verdez Moudon.
Registration information will be available in June. Contact Candace Goehring, Aging and Disability Services Administration, goehrCS@dshs.wa.gov, or Andrea Meewes Sanchez, Senior Services, andream@seniorservices.org for more information. - View More Information
- September 28, 2010 - Tuesday
- Creating Aging Friendly Communities: Environmental and Policy Change for Healthy Aging
- Location: On-line Conference Series, Sept. 2010 - Jan. 2011
A new conference series in Creating Aging-Friendly Communities called ''Environmental & Policy Change for Healthy Aging'' is being offered by the CDC Healthy Aging Research Network. Participate right from your computer to access online presentations, webinars, and resources.
Do you work in the field of aging services, public health, planning, architecture, engineering, recreation, transportation, or health care? Do you want to become more effective in planning and implementing environmental and policy change? Sign up now at http://www.icohere.com/EPC/EPCKeepMeInformed.htm to receive registration information.
This initiative aims to build capacity for change and offers a variety of opportunities for learning, sharing, and networking. It features four online modules, scheduled September 2010 through January 2011, each module covering an essential topic in healthy aging. The conference series begins on September 28, 2010. Every module begins with a pre-recorded presentation that introduces key concepts for the module topic. This presentation is followed in two weeks by an interactive webinar. Two days following the webinar, the module offers a moderated online conversation.
Funding by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality makes this initiative available to all at no charge.- View More Information
- Human Services Transportation Forum
- Location: Shoreline City Hall, 17500 Midvale Ave N
- Time: 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM
- Get answers to transportation challenges confronting human services providers serving older adults, people with disabilities, and low income populations in North King County.
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- September 29, 2010 - Wednesday
- Aging With Purpose
- Location: Town Hall, 9th & Seneca, Seattle
- Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
- With age comes wisdom—and a renewed sense of purpose, says writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson. The author of Composing a Further Life, Bateson sees aging today as an “improvisational art form calling for imagination and willingness to learn,” and calls this new stage of the life cycle “Adulthood II.” Bateson explores how people boosted by unprecedented levels of health, energy, time, and resources are finding new meaning and new ways to contribute, thinking about and approaching later lives with the full force of imagination, curiosity, and enthusiasm. Presented by Town Hall, with Elliott Bay Book Company.
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- September 30, 2010 - Thursday
- Training for PEARLS: Community-Based Depression Treatment.
- Location: Bell Harbor Conference Center, 2211 Alaskan Way, Pier 66, Seattle
- The CHAMMP Training Institute is pleased to announce the fall training for PEARLS: Community-Based Depression Treatment, September 30-October 1, 2010. Early registration deadline is September 10. For more information about PEARLS, visit our website at www.pearlsprogram.org.
Research studies have demonstrated that PEARLS is effective at reducing depression symptoms and improving the quality of life for individuals. An evidence-based behavioral treatment program, the PEARLS training focuses on two client populations: older adults and individuals with epilepsy.
You will learn to effectively assess for depression, recognize psychosocial needs and stressors, recommend steps to improve clients' mental health and quality of life, and gain practical skills. - View More Information
- Legislative Forum: "Mocktail" Happy Hour
- Location: Des Moines Senior Center
- Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
- The Advisory Council on Aging and Disability Services and South King County Senior Center Directors will host a legislative “mocktail” happy hour. We are inviting several area legislators and other local politicians.
There will be time to mingle, plus some presentations on the Senior Citizens Services Act and Q&A time with legislators. Fun “mocktails” will be served, along with finger food.
Registration is limited. Please contact Doug Ricker @ 206-684-0292 if you are interested in attending.