Meet Karen McCarty, Co-founder and Artistic Director of Healthy Humor, a comedy group of doctor- clowns who cheer up sick children in hospitals around the country.  Karen grew up in the circus, and as a child she suffered cancer, which later informed her career choice of reaching out to sick children in hospitals. She holds […]

What happens when teens include older people in their lives and vice versa. Meet Sages & Seekers, an intergenerational program designed to confront social isolation and dissolve age-related segregation. Its purpose also meets the universal need of both young adults and elders to get to know each other through conversation achieved when high touch programs […]

Each May, the Administration for Community Living (ACL) ushers in the observance of Older Americans Month (OAM). For 2021, According to the ACL “Communities of Strength” is the theme. The Administration for Communities is a health care organization based in Washington, DC. Its purpose is to maximize “independence, well-being, and health of older adults, people […]

What started with fledgling beginnings as an after school program with just a few schools, Sisters Circle mushroomed to a much larger enterprise gifting young girls with a mentor in the spring of 6th grade.  What started as a dream became reality and now is in its 20th year of operation. This is a story of transition […]

The last day of full time work can be quite an adjustment.  Is your job the way you define yourself?  Does retirement give you any sense of loss of self-worth? David Brooks, in his recent excellent book Second Mountain, describes career as being the first mountain that we climb. A second mountain can be a new set […]

For the first time in U.S. history, people sixty and over now outnumber those 18 and younger. Yet we still live in a youth-centric culture that reinforces the separation of people based on age.  Separation in the Workplace, in Our Neighborhoods , and in Schools Research suggests that workers over fifty have more than a 50% chance of […]

Many people experience a range of emotions during birthdays, Sunday family dinners, special holidays, positive, negative, or both. It is not uncommon to swing from anxiety to joy before, during, and/or after celebrations. Company is coming, bringing with them — for you — all the ups and downs of preparation, anticipation, and expectation. To make […]