Recent Events

Boomervision!® Gail Sheehy: Passages in Caregiving

Monday, June 7, 2010

WHYY’s Technology Center, 150 N. 6th Street, Philadelphia, PA
Best-selling author and baby boomer expert Gail Sheehy shares her story and offers invaluable guidance and advice for all of us trying to take care of our parents or support a partner through chronic illness. Her new book, Passages in Caregiving, addresses the needs of this enormous and growing group, and her Boomervision!® presentation will answer questions and provide insights for turning a stressful, life-altering situation into a deeply rewarding period in our life journey.

Boomervision!® Social Entrepreneurship

Monday, May 4, 2009

6:30 p.m. doors open for Dessert Reception

7:00 - 8:30 p.m. program

WHYY Technology Center

150 North 6th Street, Philadelphia

Free to WHYY and AARP Members;

$15 for non-members

After career-building and professional growth, many of us begin to look beyond the bottom line for ways to enrich our lives and leave a legacy. Social entrepreneurship harnesses business acumen for profit and for good - the perfect way to pursue one's personal agenda while achieving social goals. So whether you're taking stock, looking ahead, or starting anew, learn from a panel of experts who went into business to make it - and who made a difference.

Moderated by Richard J. Anthony, Sr., Founder of the Entrepreneurs Network and Managing Partner, The Solutions Network. Panelists include:

• Richard Caruso, Ernst & Young's 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year, Founder of the Uncommon Individual Foundation; Chairman, Integra LifeSciences
• Donna Allie, President and Founder, Team Clean
• Don Hinkle-Brown, The Reinvestment Fund
• Sister Mary Scullion, Executive Director, Project H.O.M.E.

Boomervision!® is presented by Coming of Age, a partnership of WHYY Wider Horizons, the Temple University Center for Intergenerational Learning, the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania and AARP Pennsylvania.

Funding for the 2008-09 series of Boomervision!® is provided by:

What's Next: Jewish Boomers Look to the Future

Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 7pm

at WHYY

Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, Director of Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and author of Jewish Visions for Aging , will moderate a panel of prominent community leaders who will reflect personally and professionally about the uncharted territory ahead as they, and their Boomer peers, enter a new life phase:

• Rabbi Rebecca T. Alpert, Associate Professor of Religion and Women's Studies, Temple University
• Mark Aronchick, Attorney and former chancellor, Philadelphia Bar Association
• Harris Steinberg, Architect, PennPraxis, University of Pennsylvania
• Ken Ulansey, Musician, world traveler and lapsed psychologist

Boomervision!®

Religious Perspectives on Aging

Thursday, February 19, 2009

6:30 p.m. doors open

7:00 - 8:30 p.m. program

WHYY Technology Center

150 North 6th Street, Philadelphia

Free to WHYY and AARP Members; $15 for non-members

Dr. Dan Gottlieb, host of WHYY-FM's Voices in the Family, will moderate this provocative panel and community dialogue on life transition presented by Coming of Age at WHYY.

Explore Religious Perspectives on Aging and the insights and inspiration of Jewish, Christian, Buddhist and Muslim faiths to help answer some of life's most challenging questions.

Boomervision!®

Starting Your Own Business In Today's Economy

Wednesday, November 17, 2008

Is now the right time to start or buy a business? Are entrepreneurs born or created through circumstance? Are there ways to predict success or failure? What are the steps in starting my own business? Richard J. Anthony, Sr., founder of The Entrepreneurs Network and Managing Director of The Solutions Network, Inc. will moderate a panel including:

Steven M. Goodman , Partner, Morgan Lewis
Andrew Toy, Director of the Retail Resource Network, The Enterprise Center
Robert Adams , Partner, NextStage Capital, L.P.
Leslie Benoliel , Executive Director, Philadelphia Development Partnership

Boomervision!®

Smart Women Don't Retire - They Break Free
Meet author Gail Rentsch (pictured on the left), and Christine Millen, President of The Transition Network, the women behind the book Smart Women Don't Retire - They Break Free. Hear inspiring stories rich in practical advice on how to navigate through this complex stage of life and create exciting new opportunities.

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Creating a New Life Together: A Makeover for the Midlife Couple
Wednesday, February 13th
WHYY Technology Center
Diet, weight, stress and other lifestyle issues affect mood and intimacy. Addressing these challenges thoughtfully and creatively can help midlife couples achieve a better life overall. Are you and your significant other looking to add a spark to your relationship. Join us at the next session of Boomervision! to learn some innovative new ways to rediscover each other and become partners in health and longevity.
Daniel Monti MD and Anthony Bazzan MD, of the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine, present ways to repair and nourish the "hardware" that runs the body and will teach creative behaviors and lifestyle to reinstall the "software" that programs the mind and body.

Boomervision!®
You Are What You Create
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
A moderated discussion with four of our area's most insightful minds about creative ways to approach being 50+:

• Mary and Ken Gergen, co-editors of the Positively Aging Newsletter, on creative questions to ask yourself in order to live an effective and vibrant life.
• Mary and Ken Gergen, co-editors of the Positively Aging Newsletter, on creative questions to ask yourself in order to live an effective and vibrant life.
• Imam Muhammad Abdur-Razzaq Miller on mining your spiritual dimension to enrich your life's meaning.
• Storyteller Irma Gardner-Hammond on the purpose and power of telling your life story.
  Moderated by Coming of Age "Explore Your Future" Guide Chris Robertson.