1. We Are
April/May/June 2012 Events
Wednesday, April 11 start date
AgeSong Incorporates Resident’s Artwork in Disiplay Showcase
with SFMOMA
Cafe Create Windows, Corner of Laguna and Hayes, San Francisco
Contact Laura Gibson, laurag@agesong.com
Thursday, April 12, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Mrs. Brown’s Beauty film and discussion
Guest Speaker: Nancy Thompson
AgeSong at Lake Merritt, 1800 Madison Street, Oakland
Contact Diane Broch, (510) 902.3600
Employee Appreciation Day at Bayside Park
Wednesday, April 18, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Youngsters and Oldsters Changing the World
Tuesday & Wednesday, May 14 & 15
Co-sponsored by Laguna Grove Care & OLLI
Guest Speaker: Al Power
AgeSong at Laguna Grove, 624 Laguna Street, San Francisco
Tues 6-7:30 pm AgeSong, Bayside Park, Wed 9:30-11 am AgeSong,
Contact Laura Gibson, laurag@agesong.com
Lakeside Park
Contact Judy Vared, jvared@agesong.com
Wednesday, April 18, 6:45 pm
There’s a Doctor in the House: Meet and Greet Dr. Snipes
Thursday, May 10, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Lobby, AgeSong at Bayside Park, 1440 40th Street, Emeryville
Conversations with AgeSong: Breaking Out of Bedlam
Contact Sally Gelardin, sallyg@agesong.com
AgeSong at Lake Merritt, 1800 Madison Street, Oakland
Guest Speaker: Leslie Lawson, Author
Thursday, April 26, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Contact Diane Broch, (510) 902.3600
The Real 2012 Race: President Obama vs. Candidate Obama
AgeSong at Lake Merritt, 1800 Madison Street, Oakland Thursday, May 17, 5:30 to 7:00 pm
Contact Diane Broch, (510) 902.3600 Fireside Chat, Caregiving Doesn’t End when Someone joins a
Community
Wednesday, April 26, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm Speaker: Donna Schempp, LCSW
A Decade of Devotion: Lakeside Park 10th Anniversary AgeSong at Lake Merritt, 1800 Madison Street, Oakland
AgeSong at Lakeside Park, 468 Perkins Street, Oakland Contact Diane Broch, (510) 902.3600
Special Guest, Rhoda Curtis, Author
Thursday, June 21, 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Thursday, May 3, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm Fireside Chat, Stay Young with Stories
Parents Getting Older? What’s Your Game Plan? Come and be a Storyteller in the Timeslips Program
Co-sponsored by AgeSong at Lakeside Park Speaker: Susannah Wood
JFCS/East Bay, 2484 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 210, Berkeley AgeSong at Lake Merritt, 1800 Madison Street, Oakland
RSVP rtufel@jfcs-eastbay.org Contact Diane Broch, (510) 902.3600
Saturday, May 5, 10:30 am to noon Friday, June 22 - Saturday, June 23: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Conversations on Aging: Shift in Identity Working Acrosss Generations - When You Are Younger or New to
The Cafe at AgeSong at Bayside Park the Field (for UC Berkeley School of Public Health Alumni)
Facilitators: Troy Piwowarski, Rachael Friedman, Joseph Assouline Speakers: Richard Barnes, MA, MFTI, Sally Gelardin, EdD, Nader
Contact Anastacia Corse, anastaciac@agesong.com Shabahangi, PhD
Sunday, May 6, 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm Thursday, June 28, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Generations of Success Experience Corps Event Poetics of Aging: A different Understanding of Life
Contributing Sponsors: AgeSpmg Elder Communities Speaker: Nader Shabahangi, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of AgeSong
Fisk House, 700 Hayes Street, San Francisco PCBC 50+ Housing Forum, Moscone Center, San Francisco

2. Reflections on Aging
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE TOWARDS A WHOLISTIC A CHANGE IN ATTITUDE
MIND CARE PLAN CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE
What is this journey we call our AgeSong’s commitment to excel- Residents of AgeSong are so ap-
life? Born into circumstances with lence and individualized, holistic, preciative of companionship and
our own personality make-up, we person-centered care is based on someone to listen to them, which
grow and mature, enter the world of the comprehensive knowledge is my job. Tom, who was a librarian
adulthood, look around, get a sense about each resident as a whole for most of his working life, guided
of what is expected, and either fol- person. four of us through back streets,
low this expectation or try to move READ MORE...Naders Mus- lined with small industry, to the
against it somehow. The years of ings, Toward a Holistic Care Plan. railroad tracks. Tom was the perfect
middle adulthood give way to our 1/21/2012. http://www.agesong. leader. He knew which side of the
older years and we might begin com/lifestyle/naders-musing.cfm street to walk on (the sunny side and
preparations for our letting go, be- where buildings blocked the wind)
coming lighter as we move towards Allen Power’s new book, Dementia and told stories along the way.
our final years. Beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture READ MORE... http://agesong-
READ MORE...Thoughts about of Care, has just stripped you of your today.com/category/staff-intern-
the Mind. 4/8/2012. http://www. last excuse for not understanding what it experience/
agesong.com/lifestyle/naders-mus- takes to bring about real culture change
ing.cfm within residential care settings while at To live means to age. Today’s fascination
the same time reducing the administra- with anti-aging measures overlooks this
Elders remind us of the big questions of tion of psychotropic drugs. simple truism. Not to age is to arrest our
life: what really matters to me? What gives
growth and development, is to die, meta-
me a true sense of contentment, of feeling Carol Ende, Executive Director phorically and literally.
useful inside? What are the moments I The Eden Alternative, Inc
cherish and how do I remember those as READ MORE... http://www. READ MORE...http://www.
guideposts for living my life? Elders Today alpower.net/Pages/book.ht- agesong.com/lifestyle/naders-mus-
poses these complex, quintessential ques- mhttp://www.alpower.net/Pages/
tions... ing.cfm
book.htm
READ MORE... http://pacificinsti-
tute.org/el_elto.html