Loneliness and isolation are common experiences for elderly people, especially for those who do not have nearby family members or who are not computer literate.

What do you know about the elders in your life or in your neighborhood? Are they connected to their families in an enriching way? Do they belong to a caring community of some kind? This conversation is for elderly people and people who live near elders or have elderly people in their lives to explore questions, experiences, and obstacles to showing up for elderly people and to generate ideas for connection.

Facilitator, Pamela Slaughter, was born and raised in Portland and graduated from Linfield College. After raising her family and retiring from her twenty-three-year career as an adult protective service investigator, she founded a nonprofit organization People of Color Outdoors (POCO), which hosts an education and wellness program for children called the POCO Guardians.

This talk is expected to run 60 to 90 minutes.

This event is not sponsored nor endorsed by the Library.