OWL Holiday Luncheon

Let’s get together for an in-person gathering of new and longtime friends!

Saturday, December 17, 11:30 AM– 1:30 PM

RSVP no later than Friday, December 9th
email info@owlsf.org or call (415) 712-1695
Specify vegetarian or non-vegetarian

St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
Events Center, 1111 O’Farrell Street
between Franklin and Gough
parking available, wheelchair accessible
MUNI #38-Geary, #49 Van Ness

• Complimentary lunch and beverages: specify vegetarian or non-vegetarian with RSVP

• Wear your Christmas sweaters, holiday hats or come as you are!

• Book swap, singing, plus a regifted gift exchange: Don’t buy anything new; pass a wrapped, unused gift along and have fun at the same time!  No stress—we’ll have a few extra gifts in case anyone forgets!

Let OWL know if you need a ride, and we will try to find one for you!

Happy Holidays!!

PREPARING OUR IMPORTANT INFORMATION
FOR LOVED ONES IN CASE OF
A HEALTH CRISIS OR EVEN DEATH

Speaker Susan Pollack is a retired lawyer with extensive experience in banking and financing and a recent transplant from New York.  She will speak to us from her professional experience, but also from her personal experiences during her husband’s illness and eventual death.  She will talk about what information needs to be organized and communicated to prepare for a crisis.

• Critical Contact Information: doctors, other health care providers, lawyers, advisors, pharmacy
• Finances: Social Security, pensions, other assets and sources of income, banking (list of automatic payments), investments, taxes, real estate, loans
• Legal: power of attorney, will, birth certificates, insurance, Advanced Care Directive, DNR and other documents
• Notifications: names of friends and contact information, clubs, organizations
• Personal: pets, possessions, jewelry and keepsakes
• And MUCH more

ZOOM Meeting Nov. 19, 2022, 11AM to 12:30PM

Guests, family members, spouses welcome!

For more information: email info@owlsf.org, or Call (415) 712-1695

Subsequent to the meeting, presenter Susan Pollack made her list of priorities available to us. See below. 

ESTATE INFORMATION – Outline

1. Contacts
2. Estate Attorney
3. Financial Advisor
4. Bank(s)
5. Insurance Agent
6. Accountant
7. Doctors
8. Pharmacy
9. Estate Documents
10. Will
11. Trusts
12. Powers Of Attorney (original and on file at institutions)
13. Health Care Proxies (original and on file with doctors and institutions)
14. Funeral/burial arrangements; draft obituary; photographs for obituary
15. Long term care arrangements
16. Information on family dynamics (guidance)
17. Property to be dealt with
18. Investments/Brokerage Accounts/Life Insurance
19. Bank Account(s); safe deposit box
20. Real Estate
21. Personal property and other valuable assets, pets
22. Automobile
23. Where to find things
24. Jewelry and other items of value (market or sentimental)
25. Original executed documents (will, trusts, POA’s, health care proxies)
26. Passport/medical/social security/insurance cards/driver’s license, birth and marriage

certificates

1. Credit cards
2. Bank and Investment Statements
3. Evidence of tax payments/tax filings – federal, state and real estate –
4. Insurance Policies
5. Real estate documents
6. Lists of friends/contacts
7. Lists of service providers, including utilities
8. Lists of passwords
9. keys
10. Stop/Monitor/Pay
11. Social Security/Medicare/supplemental health
12. Pension
13. Credit Cards
14. Auto-Pay
15. CableTV/internet/electric/water
16. Rent/maintenance/real estate taxes/income taxes
17. Insurance premiums (property/liability)
18. Social media
19. Insurance
20. Property and Liability (including driver’s)
21. Medical
22. Professional
23. Automobiles
24. Certificates of title (pink slips)
25. Insurance

Update Periodically

AWE 30th Annual Exhibit Online Opening Event

Sun. Oct. 23, 2022, 2-4 pm PT

Please join us for our biggest event of the year! We will celebrate the artists of the
AWE program together with a video presentation of artworks created in AWE classes,
and more!

The event will be held online. Please visit our website for Zoom link and details:

https://www.artwithelders.org/annual-exhibit/

Cover art “Sunset” by Jiang, Yi – On Lok Peralta

The October membership meeting will showcase some of OWL’s talented members followed by participant discussion on creativity and what it adds to our lives.

• Sheila Malkind, founder of the Legacy Film Festival on Aging, will talk about how and why she created the project. She will treat us to trailers on the upcoming 2022 Legacy Film Festival
• Tina Martin will read from her Memoir, Everything I Should Have Learned I Could Have Learned in Tonga
• Kathy Mata will share a short video of her career as a dancer and her current work teaching dancing to young people
• Fran Johns will read from her most recent book, Marshallville Stories
• Judy Goddess will introduce us to Drama with Friends, how she started it and what it gives to her and others

Followed by Open Mic and discussion
exploring members’creativity and talents!

For and against speakers on selected Ballot Measures:

I-Vehicles on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park and the Great Highway

J-Recreational Use of JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park

M-Tax on Keeping Residential Units Vacant

N-Golden Gate Park Underground Parking Facility

O-Additional Parcel Tax for City College

When:  Saturday, September 17, 2022, 11 AM to 1PM

Where:  Latino/Hispanic Room, Main Library, 100 Larkin St., Civic Center

Guests Welcome!

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!!

For more information:  Call 415-712-1695 or email  info@owlsf.org

Learn the status of Social Security and Medicare, including important issues listed below.  Find out how you can help shape the future of these crucial government services for older Americans.

Social Security needs updating to:

• Increase benefits and eliminate inequities
• Ensure a firm financial future by increasing FICA for workers with incomes exceeding $400,000.

Medicare’s Direct Contracting (now called ACO Reach) threatens to privatize this essential public service, resulting in:

• Allowing private investors to buy medical practices serving Medicare patients, keeping Medicare dollars for corporations
• Incentivizing profits and thereby shrinking services
• Pushing people off Medicare without their knowledge— making it difficult to get back in.

SPEAKER: We are pleased to welcome back Jodi Reed, Executive Director of California Alliance for Retired Americans (CARA).

Zoom video and call-in Meeting

Saturday, June 25, 2022—11 AM to 12:15

Zoom link to follow

For more information call (415) 712-1695     email: info@owlsf.org

Getting Back to Basics for an Active Summer!

Coach Kyra returns to OWL for a much-needed session to wake up our bodies, increase our endurance, and sharpen our awareness of safe and mindful movement

• • Workout for our entire bodies
  • Gentle exercises done sitting or standing
  • Exercises and stretches for daily and at-home use
  • No special equipment or abilities needed!

Coach Kyra is a well-known exercise trainer and coach who regularly works with the Community Living Campaign and other San Francisco senior facilities, helping older people stay fit and active according to their individual abilities.

Zoom video and call-in Meeting

Saturday, May 28, 2022—11 AM to 12:15

Zoom link to follow

YOUR INTERNET SECURITY:

Avoiding Risks to Your Data and to Your Mind

A presentation by Danielle Deibler

Saturday, April 23, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Safety on the internet is an issue that affects us all.

It is important to know how to protect:

• Your information
• Yourself, from internet-based predators and
• Yourself, from internet-driven financial scams

All of which can affect your emotional well-being and mental health.

Danielle is the co-founder and CEO of MarvelousAI, a natural language technology startup to expose bias and misinformation in online media; she leads threat intelligence at global nonprofit Quad9; and has decades in internet security, networking, software engineering, machine learning, and artificial intelligence technologies.

Look for your Zoom link or telephone call-in information via email.

Ensuring that women have opportunities to work as they age has always been part of OWL’s mission!

Learn about the Felton Institute’s SCSEP & Tech Squad

& Community Living Campaign’s SF ReServe program,  

providing services, training and work placement

for older adults and people with disabilities

• Amy Yu, Director of the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), run locally by the Felton Institute, will describe this nationwide collaboration between the National Council on Aging and the Department of Labor

• Edith Yamanoha, from Felton Institute’s Senior Division, will teach us about the Institute’s Tech Squad Program

• Susan Pedrick will talk about SF ReServe, a project of San Francisco’s Community Living Campaign, which sponsors her work as OWLSF’s Office Administrator

Saturday, March 26, 2022, 11AM to 12:30 PM

Note:  The first 15 minutes of the meeting will be devoted to nominations for the OWLSF Board.  Also, look for the OWLSF Survey in the mail soon!

Zoom Link and telephone information to be provided

For more information call (415) 712-1695                                       Email: info@owlsf.org

WHAT’S NEW WITH THE CORONA VIRUS:

Now and Looking to the Future 

A Presentation by Dr. Anna Chodos

Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022, 11AM to 12:30 PM

• What’s happening now and how can we stay safe at this stage of the pandemic?
• What can we expect in the future?
• What have we learned from the pandemic that will keep us healthy and prepared for the next public health crisis?
• Q & A period to follow

Dr. Chodos is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF and is board certified in Geriatrics.  She has a special interest in community health and how people can stay healthy at homes and in their communities.  Dr. Chodos attended medical and public health schools at Harvard University.

NOTE:  Nominations for the OWL Board will be taken at the beginning of the meeting, starting at 11  AM and ending at 11:15  AM.  Elections will be on March 26 at the start of the regularly scheduled membership meeting.

CALL OR EMAIL TO REQUEST ZOOM INFO

Come learn about the current state of issues, legislation and resources
impacting people from other countries who hope to live in the U.S.

OWLSF again welcomes knowledgeable and dynamic presenter
Rev. Deborah Lee
Executive Director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity,
speaking about:

          ♦    Demographics of immigration: The Immigrants and why they immigrate
          ♦    Legal Issues of Immigration: Asylum, Deportation, and DACA
          ♦    Resources for Immigrants: Federal, State, and Local
          ♦    Actions we can take

Rev. Deborah Lee has worked at the intersection of faith and social justice for over 25 years in community organizing and advocacy connecting issues of race, gender, economic justice and immigrant rights. Her work has been recognized as innovative and impactful, with many awards, including the United Nation’s Association of the East Bay and East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy.

To llisten to an audio recording of the meeting, go to:
https://1drv.ms/v/s!BOcjC88eJNeggZMC4ZUNbY4rFemxUQ?e=Me6JcV

The Pandemic and Beyond:

Looking After our Mental Health

A Presentation by Dr. Patrick Arbore, EdD.

Institute on Aging

• Taking stock of the effects of this historic pandemic
• Coping with the resulting changes, losses and emotions
• Opportunities for learning and growth

Dr. Abore is a nationally recognized expert in the field of mental health and aging.  He has devoted his life to increasing awareness of isolation, loneliness, and depression in older adults.

Zoom video and call-in Meeting

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021—11 AM to 12:15

The meeting was recorded and can be viewed by clicking the link and entering the passcode below

Women’s voices are important in today’s world.  Voices of older women are especially significant for their perspective on decades lived, and lessons learned.  Writing a memoir is one vehicle for telling stories documenting the history and societal change we have been a part of creating!  Join OWL for a presentation on this unique form of getting voices of older women out into the world.

Program includes:

• E. Eastman, writer, teacher, and memoir coach, who will talk about what a memoir is, its many forms, how to get started, and how to keep your project focused and engaging.
• OWL member Melanie Grossman has just published her memoir, Crossing Bayou Teche.  She will share her own process in creating a memoir and new understandings gained, followed by selected readings.
• Q&A period to follow.

Zoom Meeting link with telephone access will be sent prior to the meeting