Back to San Francisco for more conferences: the What’s Next Boomer Summit and the annual American Society on Aging (ASA). An extraordinary breadth of topics covered between the two.
What’s Next brings together experts and industry leaders in the boomer and senior markets. Attendees include such companies as Google and Hasbro (of toy dog-and-cat- for-dementia fame), start-ups, venture capitalists, industry experts and journalists.
I am speaking on trends I am seeing in intergenerational programs and communities. Here’s a taste of my talk:
- Shared sites (i.e. a senior center with a public library or high school or another, a fitness center, AARP tech and caregiver workshops as well as a Boys & Girls Club)
- Colleges partnering with long-term care communities (Oberlin, Dartmouth, Cornell, Stanford, Penn State)
- 24/7 intentional communities with a social purpose. That purpose could be helping kids who have come out of the foster care system and their adoptive parents. In New Orleans, at Bastion, retired veterans, adult civilians live among wounded warriors from the Iran and Afghanistan wars and their families.
- In the works: communities for young adults with autism
Let me know if you will be in San Francisco!
