Adult Services: Engaging Seniors

• Age-Friendly RI
• Alzheimer's Association: RI Chapter
• Guide for Caregivers: RI Office of Healthy Aging
• Kindred Hospice**
• Rhode Island Healthy Aging Data Reports
• RI Elder Info**
• RI Office of Healthy Aging
• RI Parent Information Network (RIPIN)
• SAGE Rhode Island
• State Plan on Alzheimer's Disease

• Family Caregiver Alliance: National Center on Caregiving
• American Society on Aging
• VA Caregiver Support

• Memory Cafe

  A Memory Café is a gathering space for people with Alzheimer’s disease and their care partners to get together, socialize and enjoy a relaxing afternoon.
• Neighborhood Memory Cafe Toolkit
• Tales and Travels

  Through Tales and Travel, the Gail Borden Public Library seeks to reach a stigmatized population: older adults with early- to mid-stage dementia. This monthly “excursion,” offered at 17 assisted-living facilities in the region by the end of 2017, takes participants on an imaginary trip to another country or region of the United States using library materials (e.g. books, music and objects).
• Tales and Travels: Toolkit for Librarians
• Creative Aging

  Lifetime Arts, Inc., a nonprofit arts service organization, partners with public library systems and other organizations to redefine aging through arts education. Nearly 140 public libraries in the United States have already offered Lifetime Arts Creative Aging programs to thousands of patrons who are fifty-five and older.
• Fidget Quilts

  Libraries partner with clubs to create "fidget quilts" for patrons with dementia

• Memory Cafes and Libraries: The Perfect Fit

  National Network of Libraries webinar recording. Original date: August 22, 2017
• Serving Older Adults in a Changing World

  WebJunction webinar recording. Original date November 8, 2016
• Serving Patrons with Dementia

  Reaching Across Illinois Library System webinar recording. Original date February 22, 2017.
• Library Dimentia Services

  Niche Academy Webinar by Timothy Dickey. Original air date, November 10, 2021