How to prepare for successful aging.

1. community

2. Our Innovation
• Create a “community center”
• Spark conversation among all ages
• Move toward becoming multigenerational
• Adaptive work

3. What community has to offer:
• Interactive café
• Workshops
• Group Activities

4. Café Unity
• Interact informally
• Conversation topics
• Place to meet with new friends

5. Break the Stigma
• Focus of our innovation
• Stereotypes
• This is a crucial part to
becoming multigenerational.

6. Workshops Activities
• Fear of Aging • Hobbies
• Appearance • Social events
• Health • Outside events
• Volunteering

7. Sense of Urgency
• By 2050, the world’s population
will have more people 60 years of
age or older than there will be
people under the age of 15.
• The Gap: Move from being age
segregated to age integrated.
Break down communication
barriers.

8. Why community is different
• Not age segregated
• Activities and educational
• A place of comfort and belonging

9. Who is Involved
• Students at KU
• Volunteers
• Members
• City leaders

10. Getting Started
• Find a building
• Host an opening event
• Promote Event
• Start in Lawrence

11. Funding
• Grant amount
• Donations
• Ask city leaders

12. “You never grow old – you
become old by not continuing
to grow.”
- Wilford A. Peterson