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Welcome to the Veneration Project

Veneration is dedicated to building stable intergenerational communities by helping older adults and their families navigate the practical aspects of aging.  Find out more…  

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    Posted on January 3rd, 2014

    Written by Adina

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    Happy New Year!

    We’ve been busy, and the Veneration project is still going! Early this year we piloted an Senior services clinic at a Brooklyn church, working with an elder law attorney to offer workshops and consultations for seniors and their families on legal, financial and housing-related planning. We hoped this would be a model we could replicate around […]

  • Communication & Planning

    Posted on December 31st, 2013

    Written by Adina

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    • Navigating Aging in a Brooklyn Community
    • My mom and her smartphone
    • Documentaries Tell Stories of Hoarding Seniors

    Elders of New York

    I just found this post on the incredible Humans of New York site. Check out the comments following the post, where people have shared stories and resources. Incredibly accessible community resource. We need to collaborate with these guys! Want to help us figure out how? Contact us here! humansofnewyork: “I run a senior support group […]

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    Posted on September 30th, 2013

    Written by Adina

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    Brooklyn Neighborhood Becomes a Village

    Almost three years ago, when the Veneration Project was just getting started, I read an article in the local paper about Beverly Emmons. A neighbor in Fort Greene, Beverly was trying to kickstart a community effort to enable Seniors to age in place. Beverly’s approach was based on the successful Village Model, which facilitates everything […]

  • Communication & Planning

    Posted on September 8th, 2013

    Written by Adina

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    • Cutting Out the Middleman?
    • Grappling with Death, Dignity and Long Term Care
    • What Will Your Family Look Like In 10 Years?

    “How Much Money Do I Have?”

    Yesterday I visited my mom at her nursing home in Rockville, MD. I picked her up and took her out to dinner, something that wasn’t always possible. For years she was confined to a wheelchair and constantly in the throes of an epic bi-polar mood swing. Public outings with her were heroic and often dangerous […]

  • Communication & Planning

    Posted on June 9th, 2013

    Written by Adina

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    • Filial Responsibility, Take it or Leave It?
    • Talking to Our Parents
    • Wake-up Call

    What Will Your Family Look Like In 10 Years?

    If someone had asked me this question ten years ago I definitely wouldn’t have thought about it. I wouldn’t have wanted to. Ten years ago my parents were in their late 50’s, and in the midst of a divorce. My mom was living on her own for the first time in her life, and having […]

  • Policy & Business, Stories & Culture

    Posted on February 25th, 2013

    Written by Adina

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    Age Friendly Brooklyn

    Last Friday the 36th Congressional District’s Senior Action Committee met at the Grace Harewood Senior Center on the edge of Bed Stuy and Clinton Hill in Brooklyn. About a hundred Seniors enjoyed home baked breakfast as they listened to speakers working to build something that’s coming to be known as an Age Friendly Community. First […]

  • Stories & Culture

    Posted on January 22nd, 2013

    Written by Adina

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    • Jane Fonda is My Hero
    • “How Much Money Do I Have?”
    • Navigating Aging in a Brooklyn Community

    Tackling Denial of Aging & Death

    This weekend in the New York Times ‘Opinionator’ column ran a piece called ‘You Are Going to Die‘ by Tim Kreider. It’s a great commentary on America’s national denial about aging and death. Here’s are some highlights: ‘Segregating the old and the sick enables a fantasy, as baseless as the fantasy of capitalism’s endless expansion, […]

  • Communication & Planning

    Posted on January 17th, 2013

    Written by Adina

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    • My mom and her smartphone
    • Making the Move: Seniors Navigating Moving and Stuff
    • Quiet Struggle – from New York to Haiti and Back

    Navigating Aging in a Brooklyn Community

    Last month we joined the Seniors group at the Bedford-Central Presybyterian Church on the edge of Crown Heights and Bed Stuy for their Christmas celebration. Mr. Haynes, the group leader, asked the members to reflect on something they would have changed in the previous year. Several wished that Hurricane Sandy hadn’t come to the area. […]

  • Stories & Culture

    Posted on December 25th, 2012

    Written by Meghan

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    • What Will Your Family Look Like In 10 Years?
    • A Garden grows in Brooklyn
    • Legacies, Values & a Gift for a Grandparent

    Christmas Eve Baking & Family Heritage

    by Meghan Richards, Intern. Holidays are a time when food and tradition come together to tell the story of families. This Christmas Eve, my mom and I took on the endeavor of trying to recreate my grandmother’s black cake.  Black cake, otherwise known as rum cake, is a fruit cake made with dried fruits that […]

  • Communication & Planning

    Posted on December 20th, 2012

    Written by Adina

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    End of 2012 Newsletter

    We’re ending the year with gratitude for the amazing support you’ve shown over the last year as we’ve grown, focused, and redefined our mission. Click on the link to read more…

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