The Aging Project is an annual event meant to increase awareness and inspire action related to issues of aging. Each year we focus on a particular issue, bringing educators, clinicians, and community members together to hear from an expert in the field.

This year’s speaker is world renowned Clinical Psychologist Dr. Patrick Arbore, founder of the Friendship Line and from the San Francisco based organization, Institute on Aging. He will be speaking on Aging, Loneliness and Isolation: A need for Community Involvement.

As Americans live longer, and families live further apart, issues related to aging have become a crisis for our communities. Keeping older adults mentally and physically healthy, social engaged, and out of isolation are issues we will continue to face as our older adult dramatically increases in the next two decades.

According to the US Census Bureau, “The aging of baby boomers means that within just a couple decades, older people are projected to outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history. By 2035, there will be 78.0 million people 65 years and older compared to 76.7 million (previously 76.4 million) under the age of 18.”