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COVID-19 Briefing #7 (5.13.20) – Resilient Senior Living

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Gathering Ground’s Statewide Conversations — COVID-19 Response

Call #7 – May 13, 2020

Topic: Resilient Senior Living During COVID-19

Guest speaker #1: Michael Oakes, Senior Vice President – Springpoint Senior Living Foundation

Guest speaker #2: Janet Sharma, Coordinator – Age-Friendly Englewood

Resources shared by speakers and participants during the call include:

  • Affordable Housing Resources across the state
  • Food, drug and supplies resources
  • Ideas for reducing isolation among seniors
  • Activities and Arts resources for seniors
  • Affordable house maintenance and repair services
  • Information about starting age-friendly coalitions in your town or city
  • Resources from foundations supporting age-friendly efforts

 

Download the full summary and resources links here.
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“Last night I didn’t sleep because I was thinking about this [model of bringing people together]. With the New Jim Crow Project [focusing on mass incarceration] we have to plan events and programs all the time and suddenly I’m thinking that more people have to have conversations: I don’t have to have a keynote speaker, I have to create the kinds of programs that have people talking with each other and thinking about action steps. So it’s really changing the model for us about the way we’re going to do our communicating and programs and raising the level of self-awareness in education.”

– Barbara Flythe – Campaign to End Jim Crow (Trenton)