Avenidas
Re-Inventing Aging
See the latest coverage and and read our press releases about Avenidas and our senior services in the Palo Alto and Mountain View area.
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Four of our programs were featured in the Senior Focus section of the Palo Alto Daily News on May 1st.
On page 27, you’ll see info on how we are now helping deliver groceries for seniors, an update on what Senior Planet@Avenidas is doing, a plug for our Town Hall videos and a summary of the types of programming our Village is offering right now.
Then, on page 29, you’ll see our ad and calendar of all our activities.
Two of our Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center staff members, Emily Farber and Susan Lam, wrote an article in Active Over 50 Issue 58 about a day in the life of an Avenidas Rose Kleiner participant. You’ll see that on page 20 and then the new Rose Kleiner ad on page 21.
Article featuring an interview with RKC clients Jan and Ray. Click image to download PDF.
Full-page ad for Avenidas RKC in Active Over 50 magazine
From the April 3, 2020 edition of Palo Alto Weekly.
Realizing their family probably would not be able to visit them should they come down with the virus, the husband contacted Avenidas senior services agency and asked: “If I should die at home, how would you support my wife?”
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In case you’re wondering, Avenidas Care Partners manager Paula Wolfson counseled this caller.
You too can get support from Avenidas Care Partners by telephone.
From The Almanac on March 13, 2020.
Local nonprofits are hurriedly changing their programs to protect their clients and compensate for the loss of volunteers in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, leaders say. Others are temporarily shutting their doors.
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In case you haven’t seen it in print or online, here is a link to an excellent article in the March 6th Palo Alto Weekly/Palo Alto Online covering a recent Village presentation featuring villager Ralph Cahn who shared his and his wife’s personal experience with medical aid in dying.
A Palo Alto woman who decided it was time to legally end her life went through with her decision last year through California’s End of Life Option Act.
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Ralph’s moving story was followed by Christina Goodwin of Compassion & Choices, who provided the latest stats and updates on the End of Life Option Act.
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From the Palo Alto Daily Post.
The Wise Owl Players’ upcoming performance of Ten-Minute Plays and One Hundred Laughs appeared in today’s Talk of the Town, including a photo of Sandy and Enid Davis.