50Up North Bay Magazine 2022

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DANCE ABOUT IT Age should enhance quality of life.

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verybody, if they’re lucky enough, gets old. As David Bowie said, “Aging is the extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.”

Incorporating age back into the community BY JANE VICK 24

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PHOTO PROVIDED BY VIVALON

Vivalon’s Healthy Aging Campus

Joining people in that process Marin County's Vivalon, a central resource hub for Marin County’s older adults. “Aging,” says Vivalon's director of communications Jennifer Golbus, “is a community responsibility, but our state isn’t set up that way. There’s this idea that it’s a family responsibility, and that’s just not enough. There’s so much more support necessary.” To address this need, Vivalon is in the midst of creating its Healthy Aging Campus. Years in the making, the Vivalon Healthy Aging campus was proposed to fill the gap of a facility where seniors could live, hang out, exercise, »»


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