Daniel Pink's piece in the Washington Post on Dec. 2nd advocates: "Why not enlist an army of volunteer retirees? https://wapo.st/3OOeaDo National service shouldn’t be just for the young. First, this freshly assembled army of seniors could address chronic challenges that, at their core, are problems of human connection. Take loneliness, which Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy has identified as a public health risk on par with smoking. Smith runs errands and makes appointments for his elderly client. But he says his most important role is “just sitting with Miss Barbara” — keeping her company and talking about what’s going on in her life and in the world." Our Elders range in age from 55 to 89 years old, and provide caring life advice to younger generations. This work brings meaning and connection to their lives and helps with loneliness and social isolation. They are truly golden.
Elder Wisdom Circle
Non-profit Organizations
Walnut Creek, California 381 followers
Free virtual advice from Elders to younger generations worldwide.
About us
Elder Wisdom Circle, a not-for-profit membership organization, is an online inter-generational program pairing advice seekers with a network of older adults (“Elders”) who provide empathetic, caring, and supportive advice based on their own life experiences. Elders, aged 60 and above, answer advice letters from all over the world via the Internet, offering readers of younger generations free, personal advice on a wide range of topics—love and relationships, family and child-rearing, career and self-improvement, and much more. The ElderWisdomCircle™ has Elders from across North America. The EWC program and our Elders have been featured on ABC, BBC, CBS, FOX, NPR, and in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, the LA Times, Ladies Home Journal, Real Simple, Glamour, and USA Today.
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- 2002
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Thank you to our tireless Elders who provide life-wise advice to seekers from younger generations. Their work is a gift to society. Consider supporting our Elders or becoming an Elder yourself. You can find us at www.elderwisdomcircle.org. 🧡 #advice #elderwisdom #donate
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Today is Giving Tuesday and your gift can make a world of difference. Our Elders have answered over 500,000 letters from younger generations (advice-seekers) and they tell us how much it has helped them in their lives. It gives our Elders meaning and purpose. $25 = 3 letters answered. Please give today! You can text the word ELDER to 53555 to easily make a donation. Thank you for your support!
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"Every day I come to the office I am reminded why we do this work. Bringing people of different backgrounds, different generations, and different beliefs together to solve life's problems, is not only a good thing, but vital for our society. We exist only because you believe in its mission." ~ Sara Jane Lowry, Executive Director Please consider us on Giving Tuesday.
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"I began to doubt everything I did, I began to doubt who I am. But your advice helped me realize who I was, and that despite what I was going through, I was a good man. I am now happy to be me and filled with enough strength to move on and carry the burden which is also a blessing." -advice seeker You can make a real difference in the lives of others through what you give. please consider us on Giving Tuesday.
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Giving Elders opportunities to share their wisdom can help them feel meaningful and consequential to others. They can offer us insights and perspectives that we may not have considered, and their advice can help us make informed decisions. Whether it's personal relationships, career choices, or financial matters, their wisdom can save us from costly mistakes and missed opportunities. #elders #advice #wisdom
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Our Elders bring experiential knowledge of just about every problem a human being can go through to their responses to advice-seekers -- people from their teens to middle age. And, Elders can help them take a new look at their own situations and to choose new ways of living that will make them happier.
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Don't assume we can't learn hard and challenging things.
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AGEISM It’s a dreadful thing. As a 65 year old job seeker, I’ll readily confess to finding it challenging. However, I’ve just read this most incredibly uplifting story on FB (now assuming it’s true and I’ve no reason to doubt it). It hopefully will give all who are of a similar age the encouragement that they’re still capable of making a valuable contribution. Please don’t write us off! ‘I’m just about to turn 65. I’ve been employed as an airline pilot for 36 years. I’m reasonably intelligent, but admittedly far from a wunderkind, and with no offers to work for the JPL or NASA. Pretty much an average guy who’s outstanding at being humble. At at age 64, I had to learn how to fly the most complex and advanced airliner currently in service, the Airbus A350. I had flown the relatively simplistic Boeing 767 for the past 25 years, and had never flown an Airbus, which is completely different in almost every way from a Boeing. I was the oldest person to attempt going through the Delta’s A350 Initial Qualification training program. I was warned that even much younger pilots were finding the training to be extremely challenging, and that because of my age, success might not be an option. It was an extremely complex airplane. The training manual is literally 7000 pages long. Countless Training videos, 6 weeks of simulators, extremely difficult electronic and oral exams. “It can’t be done, old guy”, many said. BULLSHIT! I went through the training and actually had an easy time of it. It was no more challenging than when I went through MD-11 training in 1991, at age 34, even though the A350 was a much more difficult training program. I had no decline in my learning ability in 30 years, and aced the very challenging program without any trouble. If I can maintain my ability to easily learn complex tasks into my mid-60’s, hell, anyone can. To answer the question: For some it might be age 30, or 40, or 50, etc, etc. However, everyone is different. Some people are still extremely lucid and able to learn well into their 90’s. Don’t assume. Don’t count yourself out at any age. Don’t be prejudiced against older people and sell them short, because many of them are still as sharp or even sharper than you. Treat all people well, especially older people, because in the blink of an eye you’re going to be one of them, and you’re going to love it when someone treats YOU with dignity and a little bit of respect.’
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