Avenidas
Re-Inventing Aging
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.
Want to learn how Avenidas Village can help you? Join a virtual Coffee Chat with current members.
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.
Limited Capacity: 11 spots available
Please note – the link for the meeting will not be active until approximately 15 minutes before the start time.
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.
Words by @jamietworkowski
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.
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.
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.
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.
Membership in Avenidas Village is about $3 a day (which, coincidentally, is about the price of a cup of coffee!) and offers support, activities and camaraderie!
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.
Membership in Avenidas Village is about $3 a day (which, coincidentally, is about the price of a cup of coffee!) and offers support, activities and camaraderie!