Aging Well Month

2021 Aging Well Month Calendar of Events Guide. Click image to view guide.

Aging Well Month is Aging Care Connections’ month-long celebration of Older Americans Month. The celebration begins with a Kick-Off on May 3 and continues with over 45 programs held throughout May that are hosted by community organizations and businesses with an interest in the health and well-being of older adults. The programs and activities are engaging, educational, social and fun. In response to COVID-19, Aging Well Month will be virtual and held on the video communication platform, Zoom. The kick-off and programs are FREE and ALL older adults are invited!

Click here to view the Aging Well Month Guide to see all the programs being offered and start making plans. Click the link below to find the Zoom links for each program offered during Aging Well Month. For more information on our Aging Well Month programs, please contact Alyson Scanlon at 708-603-2259 or ascanlon@agingcareconnections.org.

Click here to find the links to the aging well month programs

Aging Well Month Kick-Off
Our virtual Aging Well Month Kick-Off, will also be held on May 3 from 1 to 2 pm and also via Zoom. The Aging Well Month Kick- Off will be held on May 3 from 1 to 2 pm and all older adults are invited. This celebration will feature speaker Robyn Golden, a leader in the community with over 30 years of experience in the field of mental health and care coordination for older adults. She will speak about the social isolation during COVID-19. The 2020 Community GEMs will be recognized, as we were not able to recognize them last year. We will provide more information about the Calendar of Events, our Aging Well Neighborhood Program. To celebrate our 50th Anniversary, participants will also have the chance to win various prizes--from Aging Care Connections 50th Anniversary items to restaurant gift cards. The first 50 participants will get an Aging Care Connections 50th Anniversary item!

For more information about our Aging Well Month Kick-Off event, contact Emily Kehoe at 708-603-2342 or ekehoe@agingcareconnections.org.

Robyn Golden, MA, LCSW, ACSW, Associate Vice President of Social Work and Community Health; Chair of the Department of Social Work at Rush University Medical Center; Co-Director of Rush’s Center for Excellence in Aging and the Center for Health and Social Care Integration

Planning Committee
We extend our thanks to the all-volunteer 2021 Aging Well Month Committee who worked tirelessly to coordinate this amazing month.