Every May, we celebrate Older Americans Month. The 2025 theme—Flip the Script on Aging—focuses on reducing ageism by shifting negative perceptions of older adults and aging. This blog post provides organizations with ideas to take action this Older Americans Month.

In honor of National Volunteer Month in April, this blog post highlights ideas, activities and resources to inspire organizations’ work in commemorating National Volunteer Month while also promoting social connection.

Every February, we commemorate Black History Month to celebrate, share and understand the achievements, impacts, heritage and culture of Black Americans. Black History Month also provides a meaningful opportunity to host social engagement activities for older adults. This blog post provides organizations with ideas and inspiration for Black History Month engagement programming.

In recognition of National Family Caregivers Month, this blog post shares examples of activities that organizations can offer to support family caregivers and promote social engagement.

In recognition of National Arts & Humanities Month, this blog post provides ideas for ways organizations can celebrate the arts and promote social engagement and connection among older adults.

This blog post focuses on ways that organizations can identify, plan and incorporate social engagement activities into their holiday programming. The post also highlights creative methods to engage older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers throughout the holiday season to help reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation.

This blog post highlights three new program examples featured on the Social Engagement Innovations Hub. Each of these programs puts a fresh spin on a particular service or activity so that participants want to keep coming back for more. Read on to find out how your peers across the country are increasing social engagement—and consider recreating any of these examples!

We recently added 20+ examples to the Social Engagement Innovations Hub! This blog post highlights the newest additions to the Innovations Hub, including partners involved, intervention types and organizations implementing these programs.

At the 2023 USAging Annual Conference and Tradeshow in Salt Lake City, USAging staff held a roundtable discussion on rural health and social engagement. This blog includes feedback and highlights from the 54 session participants from all regions of the U.S. in a broad range of sectors including but not limited to aging and disability services, transportation, technology, health care and government.

Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) from AARP and engAGED have created a series of fact sheets to provide older adults with tips and best practices to safely and securely engage online. This blog post highlights key takeaways and links to the three fact sheets.