Los Altos and Los Altos Hills have been accepted as Age-Friendly Cities!! Big kudos to initiative leader Anabel Pelham.  As a part of the AF application, Senior New Ways will receive future tasking under grants. The first grant proposal team is being organized.

I will be presenting “Caregivers: Take A Deep Breath” at El Camino Hospital on November 18, as part of the World COPD Day event, hopefully the start of another caregiver group.

We presented our program overview at the United Methodist Church of Los Altos on November 12. In cooperation with a committee of church members, SNW will be one source of speakers on at least spiritual, health, and family topics for the community. A focus is the “40-70” rule, an estimated age range between adult children and their parents for “having the talk”.

I played the “tired cook” in a Norman Rockwell “living masterpiece” at the UMC art show in November… dear me, another disguise… I still prefer Elvis though.

We will be part of a National Volunteer Caregivers Network grant application for assistance in setting up visitor-caregiver networks in this area.

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“How did I get over the hill without making it to the top?” (Anon.)
“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.” (Bob Hope)

This is issue #1 of a casual online note/blog/tweet. Your comments and suggestions are WELCOME!

Senior New Ways has been incorporated into the Los Altos and Los Altos Hills Age Friendly Cities application. We expect future tasking under grants.

The first 20 copies of the “Laughs and Brains” DVD have been sold, including the first church library.

Senior New Ways will present its program of care facility visits, infotainment programs for groups, DVDs, and whole health / caregiver group facilitation at the Los Altos United Methodist Church on Saturday, November 12, from 9AM – Noon.

A caregiver resource group for men has begun in Palo Alto.

Our volunteers are visiting in 10 care facilities from Santa Clara to Redwood City.

You can buy our journals at Wine Country Living on Big Basin Way in Saratoga.