Disrupt Aging Movement Comes to Connecticut
The Disrupt Aging movement was created by AARP CEO Joanne Jenkins.
AARP Connecticut worked with Borrow My Glasses and Quinnipiac University to launch the effort in Connecticut with a remarkable intergenerational event:
Revolutionize Aging: A Call to Action
A Masters Level Discussion on Disrupt Aging
Held September 27, 2016
Revolutionize Aging: A Call to Action was the first event of it's kind bringing together students, professors, professionals, consumers & family caregivers to change perceptions about aging.
Keynote:
Panelists:
- AARP Age Disrupter, Bill Thomas, MD
Panelists:
- Tia Murphy, AARP CT Volunteer
- Margaret Gerundo-Murkette, Connecticut State Department on Aging
- Catherine Richards Solomon, Quinnipiac University
- Donna Fedus, Borrow My Glasses
- Victoria Kozar, Quinnipiac University Health Sciences major & Student-in-Resident at Ashlar Village, Masonicare
- Joe Huberman, Quinnipiac University Occupational Therapy graduate student & Student-in-Residence at Ashlar Village, Masonicare
Photos from the Revolutionize Aging:
The Efforts Continue:
Revolutionize Aging started the Disrupt Aging movement in Connecticut
More than 60% of attendees at the Revolutionize Aging: A Call to Action event asked for more....more tools and more ways to change conversations about aging in the community, workplace, and classroom. AARP Connecticut and Borrow My Glasses have collaborated to create the Disrupt Aging movement in Connecticut.
To read Borrow My Glasses blogs about the effort, click here
To read AARP guest blogs and news items about the effort, click here
To read Borrow My Glasses blogs about the effort, click here
To read AARP guest blogs and news items about the effort, click here
