Welcome to Mather LifeWays - National Center for Creative Aging

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Welcome to
Mather LifeWays
Café Plus Training
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Mather LifeWays
Mather LifeWays is a unique
not-for-profit organization.
We enhance the lives of older adults
through lifestyle and residential
alternatives that create
Ways to Age WellSM.
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Alonzo Mather
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Ways to Age
• Senior Residences
• Mather LifeWays
Institute on Aging
• Community Initiatives
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The Mather
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The Mather
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Community Initiatives
• Founded as a way to increase our
ability to serve older adults.
• Designs services and programs to
help neighborhoods become better
places to live, work, learn and play.
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Goals
• Change way society views/values
older adults
• Change way older adults view/values
themselves
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• Café Without Walls
• Brings programs to local community
locations and apartment
buildings/condos
• Relies on strong partnerships with
organizations with shared visions
• Serves 4,100 unduplicated older
adults
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• Mather LifeWays supports Executive
Director salary
• 300 members
• Serves the communities of Evanston,
Skokie, Wilmette, Winnetka, and
Glenview
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On the phone
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• Virtual online community targeted to
older adults
• $150/year for the site
• 1800 unique, engaged visitors in
2013
• http://www.moreways.org/
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Café Plus Approach
It starts with a cup of coffee—and from
there the possibilities are endless.
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Café Plus Services
• Centered around reasonably priced
food and a friendly atmosphere.
• A one-stop-shop where customers
can get all they need: food,
friendship, fun.
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Factoids
• First Mather’s—More Than a Café opened
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fourteen years ago.
2 on northwest side of Chicago, 1 on
southeast side.
Selected communities that had “need.”
2013 the Cafés handled over 85,796 visits.
Replication Workshop, September 15-17
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Café Funding
• MLW , an Operating Foundation
• Cafés operate on normal business model
• MLW supports the cafes
• Donations requested for most programs
• Some presenters paid fees
• Ongoing instructors paid as independent
contractors
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Starbucks Experience
• Not a coffee company
• ”America’s Living Room,” “Third
Places”
• Eased problem of social
disconnection by offering somewhere
to just hang out
• Filled need for public gathering spot
• Social glue: coffee
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(Psychology Today, September/October 2007, p. 99-102)
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Repriorment
• Lifelong Learning
• Volunteering
• Community Engagement
• Wellness
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It’s about replacing retirement with
Repriorment™
• It’s about replacing retirement with
Repriorment™.
• Re-tire-ment: being away from busy life, a
state of being withdrawn from the rest of the
world or from a former busy life.
• Repriorment™: discover the joy of new
directions, rethinking shelved but not
forgotten priorities, passions and dreams.
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“Life gets between us and our dreams.
Sometimes we’re lucky enough to be
reunited.
When your dream calls, will you answer?”
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Nudge
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Piano Stairs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw
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Make the “More” Count
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The Café Plus Model
• On the ground
• Bricks and mortar location
http://matherlifewaysinyourneighborhood.com/mathers-more-than-a-cafe
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Needs Assessment
• Volunteer Meetings
• Surveys
• Quality of Life Survey
• Demographics
• Marketing
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Exploring New Possibilities
• Computer classes
• “Speed meeting”
• Travel opportunities
• Unique exercise class opportunities
• Age Well Coaching
• Dinner Theatres
• Presentations by local celebrities
• Fitness Center
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Recruiting Artists
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Colleges and Universities
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Arts Organizations & Museums
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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago History Museum
DuSable Museum of African American History
Local Historical Societies
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Columbia College Chicago
Northwestern University
DePaul University
Community Colleges,
Norwood Park Historical Society
Irving Park Historical Society
Networking
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Vetting Artists and
Presenters
• Resumes
• Recommendations
• Interviews
• Google
• BBB
• Specialty rating services
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Partnerships
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Columbia College Chicago
Continuing Education Programs
Art Institute of Chicago
Walgreens
WTTW, Local PBS Station
Woodson Library
Chicago History Museum
DuSable Museum of African American History
Norwood Park Historical Society
Irving Park Historical Society
The Newberry
NCCA
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Songwriting Workshop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4wDtDJCSHw&index=9&list=PLuBseJHkHw82A16AjWE
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Program Examples
• Grease with Jim Jacobs
• Speed Meeting
• Exploring the Great Outdoors
• Joe Guastafeste
• Dinah Washington
• Carol Moseley Braun, Roland Burris
• Emu Egg Carving
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Emu Egg Carving
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Sam and Jim
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Collage Artist: Diana
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps42YBLcVIE&feature=youtu.be
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Skype Programs
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Pam Morton, from Aix en Provence in France, on the
Impressionist painters of Provence
Alyn Shipton, jazz critic for the London Times, from
London, on his biography of Cab Calloway
Tao Porchon-Lynch, at 94 the oldest yoga instructor
in the world, from New York, on her life in yoga
Leslie Zemeckis, filmmaker, from New York, on her
film Behind the Burly-Q about burlesque
Chris Ralling, former head of documentaries for the
BBC, from London, on his film about Josephine
Baker
June Cross, documentary filmmaker for Frontline,
from New York, on her film about her life as the child
of a mixed marriage, abandoned by her mother
Michael Patrick Hearn, from New York, on Baum
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One Good Thing
Leads to Another
• Stepping Stones
• Branching Out
• Spiraling Up
• Growing
• Connecting to Distance
• Increasing Connections to Network
• EMI – Eliminating My Impossibilities
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The Twist
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Contact
Chuck Freilich
Director of Repriorment and
Lifelong Engagement
Mather LifeWays
cfreilich@matherlifeways.com
847-492-6757
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