Thelma Reese, Ed.D., retired professor of English and Education, with degrees from Temple University speaks with passion and knowledge about ways seniors continue to pave the way. In the past, she created the advisory council for Hooked on Phonics and was its spokesperson in the ’90’s. In that role, and … Read More

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 … Read More

Look out sports world. It’s popular, quick, fun and is sweeping the nation…Pickleball It is one of the fastest growing sports in America and is played with a net, paddle, and plastic balls with holes similar to a wiffleball. It is often compared to tennis and badminton and is played … Read More

A couple of decades ago, discussions among those involved in the business of aging focused on how to refer to the elderly. Unflattering labels circulated — seniors, senior citizens, the elderly, retirees, geezers – descriptors that were somewhat negative, conjuring images of decrepitude, dullness, and failure, of being over the … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

Hello, Xers! You guys were latch-key kids, born between 1965 and 1980, and comprise the smallest of all generational cohort groups. You are self-reliant, independent, flexible, adaptable,  and want to work to live, not live to work. You don’t want empty praise – you want genuine respect for the value … Read More

Born between (approximately) 1980 and 2000, Millennials make up the largest group in the labor force. Most employers are eager to recruit this generation and figure out how to retain them once they are on board, because they tend to quit after a short time. This cohort of 81 million … Read More