The Path to Healthy Aging: Partnering with Aging Councils and Agencies
Reach older adults in your community with by partnering with local aging councils and agencies.
Call for Advisors: Aging Together
ALA is seeking nine librarian advisors to support a new project to evaluate and summarize the state of older adult programming in libraries and offer recommendations.
Making Dementia-Friendly Libraries
How libraries can incorporate dementia-friendly principles into their spaces, their collections and their interactions with patrons.
Enhancing Library Accessibility for Older Adults
Though age is not a disability, many older adults experience barriers that directly impact their interactions with their environment. Senior patrons share what they're looking for in library accessibility upgrades.
Robots and Retirees
Don't plan tech programming with only younger crowds in mind! Get seniors involved with easy STEM robots.
Helping Older Adults Manage Their Finances
Older Americans face unique challenges in managing their money. Are you prepared to help them?
5 Virtual Creative Aging Programs
Engage your older adult patrons at home with these programs.
Tales and Travel
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Through a series of "excursions," Gail Borden Public Library's nationally recognized program reaches people with early- to mid-stage dementia.
Chair Yoga / Exercise Ball Class
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A twice-weekly chair yoga class run by a volunteer instructor brings a regular crowd to Walton Public Library.
Senior Fitness Class and Chair Yoga
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If your older patrons struggle to make it out of the house in the winter, bring the programming to them.