With longer life expectancy and increasing diversity, older adults are reinventing aging and changing perceptions of their demographic. It’s time to rethink how our libraries serve this important and growing segment of our patron base. This webinar will focus on trends and impacts of the aging population, and will share creative strategies for library staff to meet the evolving needs of older adults in a changing world.

King County Library System was recently recognized by Urban Libraries Council as a 2016 Top Innovator for their work with older adults. Congratulations!

Presented by: Wendy Pender, Older Adults Project Specialist, King County Library System (WA)

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Related Resources and Links

• King County Library System’s Older Adults page
• National Council on Aging
• On the Happiness U-Curve, from the Atlantic, and full Brookings Institute Report
• Life Expectancy data via 100 Years Ago Today and Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  
• Healthy Aging Alliance and statistics on aging
  
• Pew Research on Older Adults and 10 demographic trends that are shaping the U.S. and the world
• Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures (Alzheimer's Association)
• Mortality From Alzheimer's Disease (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Alzheimer's Cost and Funding (US Against Alzheimer's)
• Creating Moments of Joy for the Person with Alzheimer's or Dementia, by Jolene Brackey
• The Caregiver’s Path to Compassionate Decision Making, by Viki Kindand her website, KindEthics.com
• Village to Village Network
• Aging 2.0
  
• On Social Security Legislation
  
• Aging.gov
• White House Conference on Aging
• Area Agencies on Aging
• Census.gov information on Older Population and Aging
  
• Lifetime Arts and The Creative Aging Toolkit for Public Libraries, a free, online resource for librarians
• AliveInside.org
• CreativeAging.org
  
• Find local AARP chapters
  
• AARP Fraud Watch Network
• AARP's Life Reimagined
• SeniorCenterWithoutWalls.org
• Personal Safety Nets: Getting Ready for Life's Inevitable Changes and Challenge, by Dr. John W. Gibson and Judy Pigott
  
• Speaking of Dying
  
• ChangingAging.org
  
• ThisChairRocks.com
  
• NextAvenue.org
• www.buddhadoodles.com
  
• www.nextdoor.com
• Reaching for Memories: Expanding Services and Programming to Patrons Living with Alzheimer’s Disease, Public Libraries Online
• Librarians: Serving Patrons With Dementia
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