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During the COVID-19 pandemic, cafes have been meeting online! Each month, AgeOptions hosts a Zoom event with informational content, typically featuring an expert speaker presenting on a topic of interest. We record only the informational portion of these cafes (not the introductions or the Q&A), and post to YouTube. Links to these recordings are below. In many cases, the slides or any resources mentioned are linked in the video description.
Note: All event times are Central (Chicago) time.
For partners, see upcoming event topics and promotional messages here.
Note: All event times are Central (Chicago) time.
For partners, see upcoming event topics and promotional messages here.
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August 27, 2024: Shaping our Present and Future: LGBTQIA+ Health Research & Insights from LGBTQIA+ Older Adults
August 27, 2024: Shaping our Present and Future: LGBTQIA+ Health Research & Insights from LGBTQIA+ Older Adults
Do you want your healthcare to be less one-size-fits-all and more tailored? To be more affirming and inclusive for LGBTQIA+ people and reflect how our communities have unique health experiences and face different barriers?
In this workshop led by Midwest Community Engagement Coordinator Cassie Armea-Warren, we’ll explore these questions, what PRIDEnet is doing to catalyze LGBTQIA+ health research, share results from our recent community listening sessions with LGBTQIA+ older adults, and discuss ways to get involved. Pre-registration is required. View flyer here: PDF/Image |
July 23, 2024: How to be a Dementia Friend
Are you a Dementia Friend? Not yet?
This presentation with Cynthia Ayala of AgeOptions will provide a brief overview of what a Dementia Friend is and how you can become one. You will learn how to effectively communicate with someone living with Alzheimer’s and/or Dementia, in addition to early symptoms of Alzheimer’s compared to other signs of aging and five key take-home messages. Click here to watch the recording on YouTube Click here for slides from this presentation Click here for additional resources shared |
June 25, 2024: Celebrating the Creativity of our Community
With so many events to shuffle between during Pride Month, we invite you to sit back, relax and let us bring this specially curated LGBTQ+ "gallery tour" to you.
Our virtual tour guide, Molly Fulop, is a longtime participant and research assistant for the (Chicago-based) LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project and a doctoral student specializing in LGBTQ art education at UIC. Click here to watch the recording on YouTube Click here for slides from this presentation Click here for full list of resources discussed |
May 28, 2024: Exploring the Expansiveness of Gender
Are you looking for ways to better support trans community members? Do you have questions you’ve been afraid or embarrassed to ask or don’t know who to ask?
Join Karari Olvera (she/they) and Jes Favers du Shine (they/them) from Praxis Group for a guided discussion in a non-judgmental space as they explore the expansiveness of gender through national data and their own experiences navigating the world as trans and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people. Click here to watch the recording on YouTube Click here for slides from this presentation Click here for additional resources shared |
April 23, 2024: Reframing Scam Shame
Let's face it - we've all made money mistakes! April is National Financial Capability Month, a time for encouraging people to take action to improve their financial futures. Please join Michael Herndon & Lisa Schifferle from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for a conversation to learn steps that can help protect you from fraud and reframe "getting scammed" into a story of resilience and recovery.
Click here to watch the recording on YouTube Click here for slides from this presentation Click here for full list of resources discussed |
March 26, 2024: Honoring LGBTQ+ Chicagoans for Women's History Month
This month we welcome Jen Dentel from Gerber/Hart Library & Archives. Jen has volunteered at Gerber/Hart since 2014 and recently became Gerber/Hart's Community Outreach & Strategic Partnerships Manager. Jen will discuss several women highlighted in Gerber/Hart's 2022 podcast Unboxing Queer History whose work and organizations have impacted Chicago LGBTQ+ history. These women include Lorrainne Sade Baskerville, the founders of Amigas Latinas, and the women of the Great Angling Lesbian Society.
Founded in 1981 and located in Chicago's Rogers Park Neighborhood, Gerber/Hart is one of the largest repositories of LGBTQ+ content in the world. Join us as we dive into their amazing collections! Click here to watch the recording on YouTube Click here for slides from this presentation |
February 27, 2024: Combating Loneliness + Increasing Intimacy
How do we connect and build meaningful relationships in the post COVID world? This workshop with Jacqueline Boyd of The Care Plan will provide insights around how to shape your social world. In particular strategies to find and get to know new people, and develop intimacy in your life. Increasing intimacy for you may mean dating, more healthy touch in your life, emotional intimacy or self intimacy, and we'll be covering all these areas together. We benefit in older age from close relationships in our lives, and we are looking forward to discussing these important issues together.
This event was not recorded Click here for slides from this presentation |
January 23, 2024: Focus Group for LGBT+ Older Adults in Suburban Cook County
Thrive with Pride by AgeOptions wants to hear from you! Whether you have attended one of our events before or not, we welcome your valuable input on meaningful programs and ways to reach LGBT+ older adults in our area.
Invite a friend! As an incentive for your participation, we will be raffling off one $50 Visa giftcard and two AgeOptions swag packs. This event was not recorded Click here for slides from this presentation |
November 28, 2023: Legislative Updates from Equality Illinois
Mike Ziri is Director of Public Policy at Equality Illinois, the state's LGBTQ+ civil rights organization. At a time of unprecedented, hateful, and harmful attacks on the rights of LGBTQ+ people across the country, Mike will present about the challenges LGBTQ+ people experience in Illinois; how this state continues to advance pro-equality, pro-family policies that support and affirm LGBTQ+ people; and ways that community members can engage in advocacy to build a better Illinois.
Click here to watch the recording on YouTube Click here for slides from this presentation |
October 24, 2023: Our Stories
In honor of LGBT+ History Month, join us for a virtual community event featuring two storytellers from Chicago Methodist Senior Services GOLD program. The GOLD Program (GLBT+ Older Adults Leading Initiatives to Drive Change) amplifies the voices of LGBT+ older adults to promote inclusion in aging services.
Special Guest: Dr. Katie Fasullo, Corporate Director of Population Health and Health Equity at CMSS, & GOLD Program creator Click here to watch the recording on YouTube Click here for slides from this presentation |