Chair Yoga
Chair yoga is a fun, accessible way to short-circuit stress and build flexibility, balance, and strength.
Chair yoga is a fun, accessible way to short-circuit stress and build flexibility, balance, and strength.
Learn how to bring the vast online learning and entertainment options available on the Internet into your home by streaming to your TV. Hear about the many services to choose from, i.e., YouTube TV, Hulu, Netflix, Prime Video, ESPN+, Disney+, and more.
Join nationally certified Health and Wellness Coach Benita Zahn for a look at how to regain our equilibrium, feel less tired and put the bright colors back into our lives.
This course will help first-time users become comfortable using their tablet. Learn about tablet terminology, various parts of the tablet, interacting with the touch screen using gestures, and modifying settings.
Join us to learn about bones, calcium, fracture prevention, and osteoporosis medications. Let’s keep our bones strong.
In the event of a medical emergency in which you are unable to communicate what type of medical care should be provided or withheld, how confident are you that your family would know your wishes?
Learn to use Keychain to keep track of passwords, make voice memos, navigate the Internet, use accessibility features, explore the Health App, meet your virtual assistant Siri, and more.
Tai Chi exercise guided from a seated position. The slow flowing movements along with relaxed breathing will gently activate your entire body for improved range of motion, strength, and stamina.
Older adults often express a desire to age-in-place. Learn about simple steps you can take that will make your home safe and comfortable and help you maintain your independence.
There are many ways that you can take care of yourself as you age. Join the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) to learn about evidence-based programs that promote healthy aging so that you can feel your best. During this session you will learn about programs that promote active living, falls prevention, diabetes prevention, and disease self-management.
In this workshop participants will be asked to explore and record lessons and values they want to pass on to family and friends.
This presentation will highlight simple ways to be more active. A discussion on how to incorporate exercise in your daily routine and practical tips for staying active.
This class will discuss the most recent findings on the benefits of “a good night’s sleep” and offer ten ways to achieve it.
This session will provide information on how to be an effective advocate during this stressful period. It will include tips on how to compare and select providers, the admission and discharge processes, communication with hospital staff, what to do if problems arise, and how to complain about the quality of care.
In this session you will learn about how home automation systems control and monitor home attributes, such as lighting, climate, home entertainment systems, garage doors, doorbell cameras, security systems, and more.
The New Year heralds many new goals to better oneself. A brief overview on a doctor’s opinion of Priority versus Reality.
Today’s seniors are lively and vibrant and seek ways to keep moving. This presentation will highlight simple ways to be more active.
This class will focus on the different types of assistive devices that are available for people with functional mobility limitations due to arthritis. Special attention will be given to walking devices like canes, quad canes, and walkers.
This class is designed to move your entire body for improved coordination, joint mobility, and mental clarity. Suitable for beginners and all fitness levels.
We will cover how to access cloud service offerings from Google, Apple and Microsoft. We will examine the advantages backing up and storing photos and important files on the cloud service of your choice, and more.
Explore how brain games improve cognitive ability, increase attention span, and improve memory by allowing neuroplasticity to work its magic. Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to form, and reorganize, synaptic connections.
This low-impact Tai Chi class strengthens the entire body with added focus on the lower body for improved balance. This class begins seated and transitions to standing midway with the option to use your chair back for balance.
Chair yoga is a fun, accessible way to short-circuit stress and build flexibility, balance, and strength. Appropriate for all levels of ability and challenges.
Find out why it’s so important to have your Will prepared and what you should be thinking about when drafting your Will.
This course will help first-time users become comfortable using their iPad, learn about iPad terminology, various parts of the iPad, interact with the iPad touch screen using gestures, and modifying settings.
Strength and Balance is a low-impact and full body exercise. The emphasis is on the lower body to improve strength and mobility through the hip, knee, and ankle joints.
This presentation will help seniors and their loved ones understand the array of local “assisted living” options and consider when those services are appropriate – or when other options might be explored.
As people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias progress in their journey and the ability to use words is lost, families need new ways to connect. Join us to explore how communication takes place when someone has Alzheimer’s, learn to decode the verbal and behavioral messages delivered by someone with dementia and identify strategies to help you connect and communicate at each stage of the disease.
In this session you will learn about the great variety of podcasts and podcast apps, how to subscribe to them, and download episodes for free.
Chair yoga is a fun, accessible way to short-circuit stress and build flexibility, balance, and strength. Appropriate for all levels of ability and challenges.
This session will cover how to develop an emergency preparation plan for you and your pet.
This presentation will focus on how we respond to changing situations while caregiving. We’ll provide practical tips and strategies for preparing for the future, learning to pivot, and living in the present moment.
In this presentation you will learn about the key difference between OTC and prescription hearing aids and their purchasing options.
There are no routines to learn or forms to remember, just follow Christine’s lead through this mind/body exercise that will leave your feeling energized, uplifted, and centered. Suitable for beginners and all fitness levels.
In this session you will learn what threats there are to your mobile phone and/or tablet and how to protect your device by installing security software, keeping up with updates, and locking/backing up your device.
Birds, flowers, butterflies, and more abound in New York's Capital Region. This program highlights the wonders that can be found in our own area, and where to go to enjoy them!
This class will cover steps you can take to keep your mobile and computer devices in good working order.
A discussion on how to incorporate exercise in your daily routine and practical tips for staying active
Strength and Balance is a low-impact and full body exercise. The emphasis is on the lower body to improve strength and mobility through the hip, knee, and ankle joints.
Join Eleonora Morrell and John Dowley, Training and Development Specialists, MicroKnowledge, Inc., and learn how to set up an account to buy and sell on the Internet.
Join Suzanne Wall Personal Health Trainer & Fitness Specialist for a low-impact and full body exercise. What you will need: a chair, light dumb bells (optional), and a water bottle.
Join Eleonora Morrell and John Dowley, Training and Development Specialists, MicroKnowledge, Inc., and learn some safety tips for navigating the internet, how to spot and handle questionable email and spam phone calls.
Join Judith England, RN, Health Educator, Kripalu Yoga Instructor, for a fun, accessible way to short-circuit stress and build flexibility, balance, and strength. Appropriate for all levels of ability and challenges.
What you will need: An armless, straight-backed chair, a yoga tie (or a necktie, belt, or a piece of fabric), and comfortable clothing.
Join Eleonora Morrell and John Dowley, Training and Development Specialists, MicroKnowledge, Inc., for a demonstration session that will guide you through understanding Facebook and why you would use it.
Join Eleonora Morrell and John Dowley, Training and Development Specialists, MicroKnowledge, Inc., and learn how to bring the vast online learning and entertainment content options available on the internet into your home by streaming to your TV.
Join Rich Goodhart, Master Shamanic Sound Healing Practitioner, and experience Shamanic Sound Healing. Shamanic Sound Healing is a potent form of energy medicine that can effectively transform our mind-body states, bringing new awareness and real attunement.
Join Dr. Elaine Handley, Professor Emeritus, write together and leave the session with some ways to figure out what the turning points have been in our lives that could lead to powerful written stories.
Join Ginger McGee, Program Manager, Alzheimer’s Association of Northeastern NY, and learn the difference between some typical age-related changes versus common signs of Alzheimer's disease.
Join Registered Dietitian Patty Wukitsch as she explores possible meal ideas for seniors that are easy, simple,
and budget friendly.
Join Christine Bhe, Certified Instructor, Tai Chi, TaijFit, and Qigong, for a low-impact Tai Chi class that strengthens the entire body with added focus on the lower body for improved balance. What you need: A stable chair without wheels that allows your feet to fully connect to the floor. Lose comfortable clothing. Shoes are optional.
Join Suzanne Wall, Personal Health Trainer & Fitness Specialist for Chair Yoga. A gentle practice that incorporates both seated and standing yoga poses to increase flexibility, balance, and range of motion. Suitable for all levels.
What are Heart Healthy fats? Please join Patti Wukitsch, local dietician, in talking about Heart Healthy fats and how we should incorporate them in our diet.
Join Gail Tassarotti from Albany Dance & Fitness for a slow-paced full-body stretch and strengthening program created by the author of the New York Times bestseller, Aging Backwards and the creator of the 20-year running fitness PBS television show Classical Stretch.
Please join Pat Buckley and Judith Mazza from Caring Together and learn facts about the disease, symptoms, risks, how to get diagnosed, treatment options, and what you can do to protect yourself.
Please join Lissa McNaughton from Atlas Wealth Management to discuss common financial scams and how to prevent, recognize and avoid them. She will also share tales and tips to help you stay safe.
Join Eleonora Morrell and John Dowley, Training & Development Specialists at MicroKnowledge, Inc. and learn some tricks and tips on how to manage email on your Apple devices.
Join Joellen Lampman from Cornell University and learn about the different ticks in our area and their biology, the diseases they carry, and how to protect yourself and others from being bitten.
Join Eleonora Morrell and John Dowley, Training & Development Specialists at MicroKnowledge, Inc. and learn the best practices on managing your email on your Android devices.
Join Catherine Lanci, BSN, RN and learn how mindfulness can help manage chronic stress. We'll practice various practical techniques to relax, slow down, breathe deeply, and let go.
Join Barbara Stevens, Certified Stress Management Consultant and explore how brain games improve cognitive ability, increase attention span, and improve memory by allowing neuroplasticity to work its magic.
Join Rachel Yattaw, Health Educator & Advocacy Coordinator at the Epilepsy Foundation and discuss, what are seizures? Different types of seizures, and treatment for seizures and much more.
Please join John and Eleonora for some basic skills common to most computer devices. Including downloading applications and programs, basic navigation both in Windows and on mobile devices, software updates, using the desktop and much more.
Join Denise Flihan, Director, Owner and Kerry Ouellette, Director of Client Care, Daughter-for-Hire and learn about in-home companion care assistance. Find out how it differs from other types of in-home care to help you to remain independent and maintain your well-being.
Join Librarian Maria Buhl as she walks us through the free digital media service known as hoopla. Available from many of the local public libraries, hoopla allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, eBooks, comics, and TV shows to enjoy on your computer, tablet, or phone – and even your TV!
Join Dr. Costello and learn about the options for treatments and how to face challenging conversations with a loved one when determining what matters most for quality of life, at or near the end of life.
Join nationally certified Health and Wellness Coach Benita Zahn for a look at how to regain our equilibrium, feel less tired, and put the bright colors back into our lives.
Join Eleonora Morrell and John Dowley, Training & Development Specialists at MicroKnowledge, Inc. and explore the mystery of TV remotes, getting the most out of Smart TV, and using streaming to watch what you want, when you want.
Join Suzanne Wall, Personal Health Trainer & Fitness Specialist for a low-impact and full body exercise. The emphasis on the lower body to improve strength and mobility through the hip, knee, and ankle joints.
Join Brett Sears, PT and learn about osteoporosis and how to manage it with movement and exercises. This class will focus on what to do, what to avoid, and the overall benefits of exercise for osteoporosis.
Join Barbara Stevens, Certified Stress Management Consultant and learn the role stress plays in insomnia, how vulnerable they may be to a “stress related illness” and some easy-to-use tips on how to get a “good night’s sleep”.
Join Christine Bhe, Certified Tai Chi instructor for slow flowing movements along with relaxed breathing to gently activate your entire body for improved range of motion, strength, and stamina.
Join Bradley Towle and Rachel Greenberg from Cornell Cooperative Extension, and learn how to save more on your heating, cooling and electric bills and the variety of clean energy solutions available for New York residents.
Join Cherise Bollers, Paralegal from Legal Aid Society and learn more about the state’s largest nutrition program, SNAP, and how NOEP can help older adults.
Join Kym Hance, Aging Life Care Manager and learn more about the various levels of care and what is covered by insurance.