engAGED: The National Resource Center for Engaging Older Adults, is a national effort to increase the social engagement of older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers by expanding and enhancing the Aging Network’s capacity to offer social engagement. Check out our training and technical assistance opportunities and our outreach materials to learn more about how engAGED can help support your organization’s social engagement programming.
Read our latest blog post for ideas to support family caregivers and promote social engagement.
Visit the Social Engagement Innovations Hub to access newly added social connection programs, services, and interventions! Innovations Hub summaries contain all you need to know about each example, including resources needed to recreate within your organization.
These fact sheets, developed in partnership with Older Adults Technology Services from AARP, provide older adults with tips and best practices to browse the internet confidently, protect their personal information online and socialize safely online.
Commit to Connect and engAGED recently hosted a webinar and Office Hours call on advancing social connection through creative expression and art in June 2024. During the webinar, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies explained how art, culture, and creative expression can play an important role in strengthening social connection for older adults. Attendees also heard from the Central Vermont Council on Aging and Dances For A Variable Population on how their programs use the arts to promote social connections for older adults.
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engAGED and Commit to Connect hosted the annual National Summit to Increase Social Connections. The virtual conference took place on May 14 from 1:00 to 4:00 PM ET and May 15 from 1:00 to 3:30 PM ET. This year, speakers and attendees explored how to leverage technology to advance social connections for older adults and people with disabilities. The summit brought together local, state and national leaders from across sectors working to address social isolation and loneliness.
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ACL's Commit to Connect initiative and engAGED hosted a webinar on promoting social connection among older adults living with HIV/AIDS. During the webinar, Dr. Paul Nash of the Los Angeles County Commission on HIV and the University of Southern California shared the latest research on HIV and aging and the Detroit Area Agency on Aging highlighted its Food & Friendship Connections program, which provides social connection for older adults living with HIV. Attendees also heard from a person with lived experience on the importance of developing social connection opportunities for older adults living with HIV. Watch Now
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