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

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Calendar of Activities

Train Your Brain!
CONNECTIONS
NOW
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
________________

 

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.
 

 

“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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