Directory
Active Aging Organizations and Leadership
Developing programming or looking for assistance to help you get started in active aging? We’re here for you! Browse our directory below.
Skalka, Susan
JCC Greater New Haven
Stage: Looking at options / planning
Prior to the pandemic we hosted monthly or bi-weekly programming for seniors. This has not resumed. As the person responsible for Cultural Arts Programming (and an interest in our senior population) I keep my eyes and ears open to programs I can incorporate for this population.
Contact: (203) 387-2424 and susans@jccnh.org
Marcus, Michael
Generations United
Stage: Looking at options / planning
Michael is a founder and a past board member of Grantmakers in Aging, as well as a former board member of the American Society on Aging. He currently serves on the boards of Generations United, Generations on Line, Citizens Planning and Housing Association, and the Mount Royal Improvement Association, as a member of the Baltimore Commission on Aging, and on the Board of Overcoming Poverty Together, an international microfinance organization working primarily in Indonesia, among many other boards and public commissions.
Contact: (847) 571-1802 & mmarcus@communityresources.guru
Biale, Rachel
New Lehrhaus
Stage: Active Aging activities in place
The mission of New Lehrhaus is to bring students and teachers together in dialogue to explore Jewish sources, traditions, and arts, sustaining and enriching the vibrant spirit of Jewish civilization. Lehrhaus is the Bay Area’s non-denominational lifelong Jewish learning institution dedicated to academic excellence, open inquiry, contemporary relevance, and cultural and religious pluralism.
Contact: rachelbiale@gmail.com & (510) 414-2055
Emerick, Lori
Aspen Group Consulting - Retirement Lifestyle Design Coaching
Stage: Looking at options / planning
The R3 experience is a customized and high-touch program for professionals at the crossroads of a remarkable career and the transition to a joy-filled retirement lifestyle. Discover What Awaits You Led by Certified Professional Retirement Lifestyle Design Coaches • Embark on a guided journey with insightful, empathetic and supportive peers. • Unlock deeper dimensions of self-awareness through a personalized Retirement Intelligence (RQ) Assessment. • Participate in five immersive virtual labs. • Gain personalized insights through four individual coaching sessions. • Emerge with a blueprint illuminating “What’s Next” for you. In addition to this cohort experience, I offer 1:1 coaching for professionals at the crossroads of a remarkable career and the transition to a joy-filled retirement lifestyle.
Contact: (503) 830-6902 & lori.emerick@aspengroupconsulting.com
Azoulay, Nadine
Cummings Centre
Stage: Active Aging activities in place
As the hub of Montreal’s 50+ community, the Cummings Centre touches the lives of 10,000 people on an annual basis. In keeping with the ever-changing needs of this demographic, Cummings has evolved into a multi-dimensional membership-based community organization offering programs and services in person at its main campus site at 5700 Westbury Avenue in Snowdon and various off-site locations throughout Montreal and online. The Cummings Centre’s mission is to empower and enhance the quality of life of adults age 50 and over by providing dynamic and innovative programs, social services, and volunteer opportunities in a vibrant, respectful, inclusive and compassionate environment. Building on its Jewish heritage, Cummings embraces people from all ethnic, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.
Contact: nadine.azoulay@cummingscentre.org & (514) 343-3510
Shoss, Deanna
Grandparents Unleashed
Stage: Active Aging activities in place
Active-ager Jerry Witkovsky and his creative partner, Deanna Shoss are authors of the book, Where Two Worlds Meet: A Guide to Connecting with Your Teenage Grandchildren, and creators of the Prompt-a-Memory Story Cards. Their work is to drive intergenerational connection through storytelling and approaches to entering each other's world and bringing families together across the generations, with expertise in grandparents and family dynamics, and intercultural/intergenerational communications.
Contact: help@grandparentsunleashed.com & (773) 968-1216
Lasker, Jill
Chai Neighbors
Stage: Active Aging activities in place
We are a community for people 65 and older, created by 2 synagogues, Adat Ari El and Temple Beth Hillel. Our mission is to help people live well within a community of friends, while fostering caring and Jewish values. We offer many classes and activities, taught and led mostly by people in our community. Our goal is to keep our minds and bodies active and offer help to those who need it. We are not a place to live, rather, we want to help people stay in place if they want to.
Contact: jilasker70@gmail.com & (818) 445-8817
Klein, Michael
Kavod on the Road
Stage: Active Aging activities in place
Kavod on the Road provides monthly educational, informational and entertaining programs at area synagogues and organizations to support older adults aging in place.
Ziegler, Christie
Kavod Senior Life
Stage: Active Aging activities in place
Kavod Senior Life is a vibrant, award-winning residential community for 400+ older individuals in Denver, Colorado, where active aging is a top priority. On campus, we engage residents with trips, activities, intergenerational programs, lifelong learning, health & wellness and other services that help older adults age well. Off campus, we provide monthly engagement programs in collaboration with neighboring Jewish and secular organizations to serve older individuals living at home. These programs include informational, educational and entertaining content, as well as an annual positive aging conference with a keynote speaker, breakout sessions and lunch. More information can be found at www.KavodSeniorLife.org.
Graver, Janee
Lab/Shul
Stage: Active Aging activities in place
GENerate is a year-long coming of age experience for adults who wish to learn, grow, and share in community with others in a similar phase of their lives. GENerate provides a nurturing, inclusive space for a select cohort of curious adults to study and celebrate life together. Participants will search and, perhaps, reaffirm their values, actualize life lessons, and define their personal legacies. Through Lab/Shul’s renowned Storahtelling curriculum, participants will become their own storytellers, marking and sharing meaningful moments and transitions.
Schneider, Melanie
UJA Federation of New York
Stage: Looking at options / planning
UJA is planning for and supporting a cross divisional initiative for active older adults focused on offering compelling options, experiences and community in the New York suburbs.
Cherow-O’Leary, Dr. Renee
Education for the 21st Century, New York and Los Angeles based
Stage: Active Aging activities in place
I am an educator, writer, and group facilitator in Communications and Culture and have extensive background in Jewish learning and interfaith leadership. I am part of the team that developed LabShul's program for older adults called GENerate. I have also taught at the Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan at the Wechsler Center on Modern Aging (Interdisciplinary Views of Aging) and led several Wise Aging groups. I am available to work with teams of creators of new programming or conduct research for deeper understanding of the needs of aging cohorts. My Linked In profile is www.linkedin.com/in/renee-cherow-o-leary_67b7726/.
Allmayer, Ariella
OneTable
Stage: Looking at options / planning
OneTable encourages Jewish young adults to explore the celebration and enduring practice of Friday night Shabbat dinner as an opening to Jewish meaning, joy, and connection. Since 2014, more than 180,000 people have made indelible connections at over 80,000 OneTable Shabbat dinners.
We will begin piloting “Together @OneTable”. This new offering would expand our brand and allow us to test the OneTable.org platform (i.e. Shabbat dinners) with older adults, a population that tends to be overlooked by Jewish engagement efforts, though they need ways to connect just as much as young adults.
Feel free to reach out to ariella@onetable.org if you are interested in testing this out in your community!
Krame, Evan
The Jewish Studio
Stage: Active Aging activities in place
Co-creator of the Jewish Studio to engage adults in joyful and meaningful Jewish experiences. Our events are designed with the empty nester and baby boomer demographic in mind. In addition to religious services, we bring our cohort together for community service projects, theater outings, hikes, and social events.