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Friendship Center — This Fall, find out how to take a LEAP! and WISE UP Hollywood style

by Community Contributor • October 2, 2019 • Comments Off

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Mondays & Wednesdays in Montecito

as well as

Mondays & Thursdays

in Goleta:

GOLETA

805-845-7442

Persons w/Memory Loss & Their Caregivers

1st Tuesday

10:00-11:30am

w/Sandra Rodezno

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MONTECITO

805-969-0859

Veterans Group

3rd Mondays

2 – 3:30 pm

w/Carol Metcalf-Roth, MFT

Military Family Life Counselor

Early Stage Memory Loss/

Mild Cognitive Impariment (MCI)

& Care Partner

1st & 3rd Wednesdays

1 – 2:30 pm
Pre-registration required:
Call 805.892.4259 x 111
Facilitator: Jackie Marston

A toast to you!

for making our 9th annual Wine Down

a great success…

Special thanks to our generous donors, sponsors, community partners, volunteers, vintners and vendors, Board members and staff for

your efforts and contributions.

Congratulations to our 2019 Big Heart Awardees,

Kathy Marden & SBCC Vitality Program.

This event would not be possible

without you!

If you were unable to join us

at the Wine Down,

here’s an opportunity to Take A LEAP!

LEAP (Life Enrichment Activity Program) brings the joy

of music and movement to stimulate, soothe and

delight our members. These activities help to alleviate anxiety and other symptoms of dementia, all made possible by donors like you.

Click here

to donate to LEAP

“Old Folks” Offer New Insights

WISE UP on Aging Helps

Hollywood Hear From Real Elders

You may have heard about one of our newest, most innovative programs, WISE UP on Aging. Well, for this month’s newsletter, we would like you tell you about it and share some of the insights offered by our members. Enjoy!

Authors: Kathryn Cherkas, MIPH, is Program Manager at Friendship Center Montecito, where she coordinates the project; Stuart Greenbaum is director of the WISE UP On Aging initiative and a Governor’s appointed to the California Commission on Aging.

Who better to judge whether art accurately imitates life than those with plenty of life experience? So, when Hollywood attempts to fictionalize aging-related storylines, it would make sense, practically and experientially, for creative content developers to consider the source–as in real older adults.

Elders can provide studios with a reality check concerning authentic representations of aging. Moreover, there’s a financial incentive to favoring this demographic, a rapidly growing population who enjoy consuming small- and big-screen entertainment.

Fortunately for Hollywood, when representations of agingmatters, a fountain of knowledge lies just up the coast. At Friendship Center in Montecito, California, an intrepid group of a dozen 70-, 80- and 90-somethings gather monthly to critique what the industry has to offer mature audiences.

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