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Senior Centers: If They Don’t Innovate, They Will Die

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“If they don’t innovate, they will die.”  So says John Krout, director of the Gerontology Institute at Ithaca College, in today’s New York Times story about the future of senior centers.

“Changing Aging” broached this subject earlier this month in a post about a new kind of center at Ecumen’s Parmly LifePointes community (pictured above).

This and other successful new centers such as Mathers Lifeways Cafes don’t scream “senior center.”  They scream “aging is all about living . . . even at the end of life.”

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 10:11 am and is filed under Hospitality, Innovation & Technology in the Age Wave, Leadership, Livable communities, Vital Successful Aging. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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