Adult Services: Engaging Seniors

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.

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).

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.

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

National Network of Libraries webinar recording. Original date: August 22, 2017

WebJunction webinar recording. Original date November 8, 2016

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

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