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Over the 40 years prior to my retirement in 2014, I worked to promote access to high quality healthcare at an affordable cost. Based on abject failure in accomplishing those goals, to wit, today’s health care affordability crisis, I’ve been reflecting on where we went wrong, e.g., managed care, “competition,” and some regulations; and where we should go now: standardizing medical necessity determination, simplifying and limiting the number of health care plan designs and expanding Medicare to those aged 55-64.
MacColl Room, First Presbyterian Church
In person preview about Penn‘s Village for prospective new members.
Old Buttonwood Room, First Presbyterian Church
Learn how to make happy decisions about what to let go of and ways to organize the rest. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll have fun while setting individual goals for decluttering and receiving specific strategies to meet them. Find out how to recycle stained clothes, torn linens, DVDs, broken lamps, and more. Clutter Tonic specializes in recycling or repurposing nearly everything. You can even bring some items to class, and Rachel will recycle items you can’t recycle curbside.
Presenter Bio: Rachel Martin is the founder of Clutter Tonic: The Easy, Refreshing Way to Organize Your Home. She takes great pleasure in teaching people to organize and maintain filing systems, create craft areas, achieve the clean-lined kitchens they crave, and more. She has enjoyed facilitating hundreds of lively, participatory workshops in her career as an educator.
Often called ‘simple’ estate planning, this could not be further from the truth. Frequently a Will, Power of Attorney and Advance Directive are looked at as the end-game, in reality they’re the starting gun. Learn the basics of estate planning, common mistakes and misunderstandings, and how to avoid these.
Gerry Evans has spent many years leading men’s groups that help men support one another through life’s changes. Now retired and in his eighties, and a member of Penn’s Village, Gerry is starting a small group for retired men who want to connect, share experiences, and feel less alone. This is not a therapy group. It is a friendly and respectful space where men can talk about the opportunities and challenges of this stage of life.
The first meeting is an opportunity to see if the group feels right for you. If there is interest, the group will meet every other week for 12 weeks, with the possibility of continuing.
Many men find that talking with other men helps them feel more connected, supported, and engaged with life.
To learn more or sign up:
Call Gerry Evans at 610-909-2484
Philadelphia City Institute
This is an historical drama film from 2015, dDirected and co-produced by Steven Spielberg. It is 141 minutes and is in English, Russian and German with English subtitles. It features Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan and Alan Alda. During the Cold War, American lawyer is entrusted with negotiating the release of a convicted CIA pilot in exchange for a convicted Soviet KGB spy held by the United States.
MacColl Room, First Presbyterian Church
Description: This is a story about meeting Erick Chénier, a contractor for the French Army, and how he sent me a letter from a town in the middle of the Sahara desert. It is part of a larger story about becoming obsessed with the stamps of sub-Saharan Africa, and being led to study the history and biology of a part of the world that most Americans know almost nothing about.
Bio of presenter—Scott Poethig is an emeritus member of the Biology Department of the U. of Pennsylvania. In addition to studying the genetic regulation of plant development, Scott taught courses across Penn’s curriculum, for which he received a Lindback award. In retirement, he is teaching a course on the History and Biology of Food with a colleague from Classical Studies, completing on-going research projects, organizing his extensive stamp collection, and building furniture.
The Helm Room at Parkway Central Library (enter on Wood Street)
Whether you‘ve just joined, read our newsletter for years, or attended a couple of Penn‘s Village programs, we invite you to join us and learn more about what it means to be a Penn‘s Village member!
Learn more about all of the benefits of being a Penn’s Village member, from receiving services and volunteering to participating in social programs and interest groups.
This is an opportunity for members to meet other members and socialize, share interests, ideas, and experiences. This coffee and conversation event was planned in response to our recent survey results in which members requested more opportunities for informal social interaction among other members.