Posts tagged seniors
Estate Planning – Wills and Trusts lunch and learn for seniors offered
Apr 5th
The Boulder Seniors Foundation presents a lunch and learn on the subject of Estate Planning – Wills and Trusts. This lunch and learn will be held at the West Boulder Senior Center, 909 Arapahoe Ave., from noon to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26. The fee is $15, which includes lunch provided by Café Classico.
After lunch, local attorney Sharon Svendsen, who specializes in estate planning and elder law, will give a presentation on the most important steps any person can take to make sure their final property and healthcare wishes are honored.
This seminar is sponsored by the Boulder Seniors Foundation as a fundraiser for Senior Resources. The Senior Resources staff offers individualized consultation and resource referrals. Call to learn about and understand the resources available to adults age 60 and older, as well as their families. The staff can help you clarify needs, understand what your options are, learn how to maneuver the application processes, balance care giving and develop a plan of action. Senior Resources is a program of the City of Boulder, Department of Housing and Human Services.
Look at this and other activities online at www.boulderseniorservices.com For information or to register by the deadline of Monday, April, 18, call 303-441-3148 or 303-441-4150.
Boulder Senior Services is a division of the Department of Housing and Human Services. For further information please call 303-441-3148 or 303-441-4150.
Washington Village Progress Report for Nobo North Boulder
Mar 9th
-Steven Toot, VP of Construction
SENIOR COHOUSING:
Establishing a Healthy, Sustainable Lifestyle for an Aging Generation
by Chuck Durrett
Last year Americans drove 5 billion miles caring for seniors in their homes (Meals on Wheels, Whistle Stop Nurses, and so on). In our small, semi-rural county in the Sierra foothills, Telecare made 60,000 trips in massive, lumbering, polluting vans-buses – usually carrying only one senior at a time – schlepping a couple thousand seniors total over hill and dale to doctor’s appointments, to pick up medicine, or to see friends. In our cohousing community of 21 seniors, I have never seen a single Telecare bus in the driveway. In cohousing it happens organically by caring neighbors: “Can I catch a ride with you?”; “Are you headed to the drug store?”, etc. And this alternative is much more fun and inexpensive for all involved, and much less damaging to the environment. Wolf Creek Lodge, a new senior cohousing community under construction, has 30 units on 1 acre within walking distance of downtown Grass Valley, CA. population 12,000. Top of mind, one future household will be moving from a 20 acre lot, 9 miles from town, another from 15 acres, also 9 miles out of town, and another from 13 acres, 7 miles from town. These are young seniors planning not only to live more sustainably, but more fulfilling as well.
Bill Thomas, M.D. and prominent author on issues affecting seniors, describes our currently predominant scenario of caring for seniors as the “$3 trillion dollar dilemma.” The cost of care for the 78 million new senior/baby boomers “coming of age” in the next 20 years will be $3 trillion dollars more per year than it is now (and that is in a nation with a $13 trillion dollar GDP – to put it into perspective). It goes without saying, that the current pattern is not sustainable from an environmental, cultural or financial point of view.
President Obama has announced that for us to arrest global warming, we will have to reduce carbon emissions by 2% per year until 2050. It seems doable, but last year, carbon emissions increased by 1.4% – we are headed in the wrong direction. Given this situation, we’ve got to do something. We need to think collectively about how to set seniors up for success and to help them achieve their full potential into their last 20-30 years and how to set the environment up for success at the same time. Cohousing is for seniors who want to be a part of the solution.
SENIOR COHOUSING WORKSHOP APRIL 11-15, 2011
Senior Cohousing: A Community Approach to Independent Living, second edition published by New Society Publishers (www.newsociety.com) – and the type of communities it describes and helps to create – allows seniors to live lightly on the planet and to enhance their quality of life at the same time.
East Boulder County Meals on Wheels needs Help!
Feb 8th
“Sponsor a meal for someone who cannot afford it. Meal on Wheels of East Boulder County– Meal Sponsorship Fund.
So that no senior goes hungry. 303-665-0566″
Please let me know or edit the statement above as you see fit. We appreciate the support very much.
Thank you,
Melinda Hall
Director
Meals on Wheels of East Boulder County
303-665-6644