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Transforming the Isolation of Growing Older Through Community and Conversation

America’s aging population and longer life expectancy is prompting more than debates about social security and Medicare. In public conversation, research, and service provision, the view of aging as inevitable decline and time of loss is being challenged. Although loss— of friends and family, of economic stability, of mobility, of cognitive functions due to dementia—are phenomena of aging, many are asking whether it has to lead to isolation.

Join us on Friday, June 17 at Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South, Room 214, for a conversation with people who are challenging this “loss paradigm,” moving beyond practices of repair and prevention to create conversation and build community with aging New Yorkers with dementia, with chronic mental illness, with LBGT communities of color, with residents of the Upper West Side and others as they share discoveries made, and obstacles faced, in using conversation and community to transform isolation and support older Americans to grow and develop.











When: Fri., Jun. 17, 2016 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: NYU School of Law
40 Washington Square S.
212-998-6040
Price: $35/$25 low income students in advance
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America’s aging population and longer life expectancy is prompting more than debates about social security and Medicare. In public conversation, research, and service provision, the view of aging as inevitable decline and time of loss is being challenged. Although loss— of friends and family, of economic stability, of mobility, of cognitive functions due to dementia—are phenomena of aging, many are asking whether it has to lead to isolation.

Join us on Friday, June 17 at Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South, Room 214, for a conversation with people who are challenging this “loss paradigm,” moving beyond practices of repair and prevention to create conversation and build community with aging New Yorkers with dementia, with chronic mental illness, with LBGT communities of color, with residents of the Upper West Side and others as they share discoveries made, and obstacles faced, in using conversation and community to transform isolation and support older Americans to grow and develop.

Buy tickets/get more info now