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Hearing your Best During COVID-19

Technology, Research, and Solutions for Better Communication

Presenter: Dr. Peg Lisi, Clinical Audiologist, Pacific Hearing Service

During this webinar we will discuss:

  • Five key elements of communication: Tips for the speaker and the listener so each has a better experience
  • Update on technology: Ways to improve your hearing through smart phone apps, microphones, and other accessories. (While sheltering at home, it’s important to hear your favorite TV shows and news).
  • New research on masks: Find out how the right mask can make a huge difference in your ability to understand others – and tips for keeping your hearing aids in place while taking your mask off!
  • Your questions and concerns: What do you want to know? We’re here to help with all your hearing healthcare and communication questions.

How to Participate

This lecture takes place on Zoom. Please register online. Zoom link and password will be emailed to registered participants.

Register Online

About the Presenter

Dr. Lisi, Au.D., received her undergraduate degree in communicative disorders and a Master’s degree in audiology for SF State University, and her doctorate from the University of Florida, Gainesville.

She is also a professional classical and opera singer. After several years of performing throughout the country, she went back to school to study communicative disorders, where she eventually discovered a passion for audiology. She’s an audiologist by day and an opera singer by night!

About the Sponsors

Pacific Hearing Service logo

Pacific Hearing Service has provided audiology services in the Bay are for more than 40 years.

Pacific Hearing Connection is a not-for-profit hearing clinic providing hearing healthcare to those who are under-served or under-insured.

Avenidas Village Coffee Chat on Zoom

Avenidas Village is a program that was designed, long before COVID restrictions, to support seniors living in their own homes. During COVID, we have not only continued our operation but increased services to address new needs and offset potential social isolation. 

Avenidas Village provides to its members a simple, safe way to find needed help at home, get engaged in activities with peers, and make new friends so that members don’t feel all alone in these difficult times! Please check out this video conversation highlighting some of the ways we help members keep connected and secure.

Check out this video conversation highlighting some of the ways we help members keep connected and secure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYya1_ZiIk
Recorded Avenidas Village Coffee Chat

Registration Information

Limited Capacity: 12 total spots available.

Please note – the link for the meeting will not be active until approximately 15 minutes before the start time.

Register Now

When registering for the Coffee Chat, please let us know how you found out about Avenidas Village in the comments section (e.g., Avenidas email, newspaper, magazine, friend).

Avenidas Village Members Appreciate Grocery Delivery

Avenidas Village Members Edgar and Gee Gee Williams are so relieved that they can get their groceries delivered to them during this pandemic from Avenidas Village Social Coordinator Sabrina Huang.

Sabrina Huang (front) at a safe distance from Eric and Gee Gee Williams and their dog, who is sniffing at the grocery bags. All three humans are wearing masks.
Sabrina Huang’s no-contact grocery delivery service.

Want to learn how Avenidas Village can help you? Join a virtual Coffee Chat with current members.

Avenidas Village Coffee Chat on Zoom

Avenidas Village can help you live better at home!  Learn more about this “virtual” community for adults 55 and up that offers practical help, resources and social connections to help you stay independent and thrive in your own home.  Come to a Coffee Chat and hear from members how the Village program enriches their lives.

Watch a Recorded Coffee Chat

Recorded Avenidas Village Coffee Chat

Registration Information

Limited Capacity: 11 spots available

Please note – the link for the meeting will not be active until approximately 15 minutes before the start time.

Register Now

A Message from Vassar’s President, via Chuck Sieloff

Chuck Sieloff shared this with the Avenidas Village mailing list.

As we enter a time of anxiety and uncertainty, cut off from many of the things that bind our community together, let’s remember to reach out to fellow Village members to offer each other whatever assistance and support we are able to give. 

Today, the president of Vassar College (where I have a grandson enrolled as a student) sent out this message. It resonated with me, and perhaps it will with you, too.

Conversations will not be cancelled.
Relationships will not be canceled.
Love will not be canceled.
Songs will not be canceled.
Reading will not be canceled.
Self-care will not be canceled.
Hope will not be canceled.
May we lean into the good stuff that remains.

Words by @jamietworkowski

Avenidas Village End of Life Presentation in Palo Alto Online

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.

Sue’s farewell: A Palo Alto ‘end-of-life’ story

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.

Read the complete article »

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.

If you missed the presentation or would like to review it, you can watch the video