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Washington County’s Age Cafe brings social connection, targets ageism
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Washington County’s Age Cafe program, led by the county’s Older Adult Behavioral Health Initiative with library and nonprofit partners, hosts monthly small-group conversations to reduce loneliness among older adults and promote positive views of aging, program staff and participants said.
Washington County’s Older Adult Behavioral Health Initiative and community partners run Age Cafe, a regular small‑group conversation series designed to reduce loneliness and promote positive beliefs about aging, program staff said.
Kara Magarel, older adult behavioral health specialist with Washington County Disability, Aging and Veteran Services, said Age Cafe offers “small group conversations in a community setting” that anyone can attend and that the sessions often meet monthly at partner sites such as the Beaverton City Library.
The program matters, Magarel said, because loneliness and isolation worsen health outcomes for older adults. “We know that if we can address that loneliness and isolation and create more community, a sense of belonging, more connection, it actually…
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