Reframing Aging: “Let’s include younger generations in this conversation instead of competing against them”

Intergenerational Programs Thrive in Rural Minnesota

by Beth Baker. This post originally appeared on Next Avenue. Rick Ramey, 82, has always loved monarch butterflies. So when his community of Moose Lake, Minn., built a new public pavilion, he floated the idea of establishing butterfly gardens there. “I thought this was...
Reframing Aging: “Let’s include younger generations in this conversation instead of competing against them”

New York City Program Brings Generations Together

by Beth Baker. This piece originally appeared on Next Avenue. A large room fills with older adults and teenagers in the New York City headquarters of the nonprofit DOROT. They sit down on opposite sides of two long rows of tables filled with black-and-white chess...
Reframing Aging: “Let’s include younger generations in this conversation instead of competing against them”

Mapping LGBTQ History in St. Louis

All too often, history is written by those in the mainstream, and the stories of marginalized communities – the stories of our elders – are lost. A team in St. Louis is working to recapture and map the history of LGBTQ communities in the region, and last month, they...