Site Visits are a great opportunity to see successful programs in action. Each site visit is $40 per person, and each is limited to the first 50 participants. Register early (or add a site visit to an existing registration) to secure your space during one of the following site visits.

North Shore Senior Center and the House of Welcome Adult Day Services

Thursday, March 14 | 1:00–5:00 pm

Cost: $40 per person
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North Shore Senior Center is a multidisciplinary senior center with more than 3,500 members that provides educational, wellness and recreational programs for active adults. It also has an extensive social services department and offers an adult day service program. The visit will include presentations and tours of classrooms, fitness center, café, art studio and dining room. There also will be an opportunity to tour the House of Welcome, which offers a unique program of structured, therapeutic, small group activities in a comfortable, homelike setting. Light refreshments will be provided.

A Mather LifeWays Road Trip

Thursday, March 14 | 1:00–5:00 pm

Cost: $40 per person
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Mather LifeWays, a non-denominational, nonprofit organization in Evanston, Illinois has been creating ways to age well for more than 70 years. First stop: Mather’s—More Than a Café, described by The New York Times as “…a sleek meld of Starbuck’s, Bally’s and Elderhostel.” Next stop: The Mather, an award-winning, forward-thinking continuing-care retirement community focusing on “repriorment,” not retirement. Snacks will be provided for the bus ride between Mather’s and The Mather. Light refreshments also will be available at The Mather.

Mayslake Village (campus only)

Friday, March 15 | 1:00–5:00 pm

Cost: $40 per person
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Unlike any other affordable housing property in the country, Mayslake Village has been offering a wide array of onsite support to over 600 low-to-moderate income seniors since 1965, utilizing four different HUD programs. You will tour our campus (six apartment buildings, a wellness center, dining room, chapel and auditorium), as well as attend a presentation from our multidisciplinary team members to learn how to duplicate our innovative model or how to build your own Section 202 building.

Lieberman Center for Health and Rehabilitation–CJE Senior Life

Friday, March 15 | 1:00–5:00 pm

Cost: $40 per person
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Participants will learn about CJE’s cutting-edge agency-wide dementia care services and creative arts therapy programs, with a focus on CJE’s Art in the Moment program, which stimulates positive and normalized interaction between family caregivers and individuals in the early and middle stages of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Under the guidance of a certified art therapist, participants will view and discuss an art work and engage in a hands-on art-making activity based on the art work. CJE’s facility-based music, dance and art programs will be discussed, and tours of Lieberman Center will be available, with further discussion of the integration of creative arts in a residential setting.