corporate world but really saying this is now my time to kids and what do i want to do now at this point in my life that you know i have put off you know as a time was never right or just say it's finally my time to and today we're talking about more sort of focusing on different resources that are available probably more in the personal area right talk about i mean we've got a special category very exciting susan hoskins and she's the executive director priest and senior resource center so she's going to tell us all about stuff that's available that our viewers a ton of resources and a lot of people may not even have a clue that these resources are available to them so if you could talk a little bit more about how you you know sort of your beginnings at the center and a little bit more about the different things that you guys offer and we're kind of go from there sort p s r see has been in the community for over forty years been the executive director now for almost fifteen while and we are a private nonprofit organization so we our focus is serving the needs of older adults and family caregivers in princeton and the surrounding communities as you noted we have a wide array of things right but we want to be the go to resource so what ever your concern is around aging so for people fifty fifty five and did you know that there are so many people so many boomers these days that are continue to work through their sixty's right into their seventy's and other people who are grandparents fifty five oh that's right this really a wide range but i think you know we talk about boomers and expectations and all of we can get back into this later but one of the things that i think is a wes been a big surprise for boomers raising their children and taking care of their parent's life rise so parents are see has a wide offers a wide array of things we offer retirement planning workshops we have a minute retirement group women in retirement group who invite speakers in and do a lot of social things together we have transition retirement workshops and then we also do family caregiver support so we have groups for spouses and children of aging parents and we do consultations so there are three social workers on the staff and so you could call and say you know i i'm just really worried you know there are more dents on the car or there are more burnt potholders in the kitchen i'm to do and i really individualize that so the answer for you might be different from being i live in different communities ride there's a different support network here you know maybe your next you're worried about your next door neighbor no family  living within five hundred miles knowing the faith community right now some of those normal support structures whereas you your mom lives in the other half of the twin house right you and your you know you're right it's always there and just whatever you know so we really need to to individual yes yeah the plan for each person and that's what we've got some really fantastic family come create a care plan and then the family really is the care manager yeah i mean i don't know nothing about that every year in the fall he is are busy offers a community education conference because we feel there are so many things to learn about the aging process right and so each year we pick a different topic  and then we have a keynote speaker we have five workshops on various different aspects of that talk right and we have a resource fair so we invite a number of local businesses to come in and showcase the part that know unfortunately that's a really that's a reality ality i have yeah very good friend who is mom had to mention she passed away and it was not easy it really was not easy though the know the back that you have started eight thirty with continental breakfast and registration the continental breakfast provided by bear creek assistance and then we have the keno and the workshops and you know between those the resource fair and then  we break for lunch and people can wander around the resource of areas where i write and it's a great time to meet people who do residential care who do home care who provide legal  medicare and medicaid right rather than what medicare pay for and what won't pay grunt right so we help people with that but this workshop is a great time to pick up lots of pieces and then the last workshop is on managing the year we pick a different topic michael been through so ryan plan they have legal and financial planning technology brain health and i and caregiving have been the the four main topics and retirement right right what i think i'd love with susan touched upon was because i know when we were planning the show and trying to plan future shows that word senior center you know the word scene there i know writer and that's what is the first thing that comes into people's mind when yeah and about that for the baby boomer generation because quite frankly we never see ourselves as getting old that would probably be one of the last places that we would go to and say ok you're resources especially things that are relevant to me so it's great that you have these services but i know there's also educational i think you guys are lying you know i sit in university but some professors and so forth well get into that ok ok s r c and we really try to emphasize the resource because it's true a lot of younger people don't oh i'm not going to see reiser i'm not old yeah right right you know and classes for physical for physical activity but you're right we're a lot of people travel quite a ways to come to our education classes which include the ever bring form our lifelong learning program so we have a fall semester and a spring semester of classes which are college level classes taught by retired college professors and professionals in the field right in their field and it includes literature religion science the arts ok yeah and i looked at the program and i was surprised i was like whoa there is a locked heere a very interesting topics that i didn't even know about and i was like eat well and interact with other people right exactly so we think all those parts are important we have twenty five classes running right now with about five hundred fifty people in rolled we while the same in the spread is beautiful and i imagine that that program will continue to grow and you asked about princeton we have a couple of princeton professors in the program we also have some from the college of new jersey rider rutgers all little local colleges you have people who are local  cosmetology right thank you yeah and they had so much fun meeting with each other and talking they said can we keep meetings well you know we'll find a room right and you can keep well they've been meeting for five years and wow and the group has just grown so you know there again you you see people excited engaging the stuff they write on the whiteboard makes no sense to me at all and  and yet also those people know each other yeah yeah yeah men and if we build their own little group if somebody's there somebody says hey what have you just yeah and find out and that's building a community arised a really essential part of who we are and what we do so in addition we have some other classes memoir writing our classes and things like that we do a lot of single session lectures so if somebody says hey you know my book published last week oh ok you want to come in to talk about  movies opera videos but we also have a social services and i think sometimes that gets from gotten because you know we're protecting people's privacy but right said that resource connecting a person of seventeen groups so many different aspects of get together knit every week they're going to have a sale at our fall conference of the things that they've been adding yeah that's just beautiful and there are opportunities for someone to come in and if they have it inches in a certain oh i thought i must be crazy i don't have time to do this but i think it's so what a great entry point to get or not really sure if you want to come into the center you just cry check right out there's no membership thing right way but you just want to kind of check it out to see if these are your people yeah yeah yeah if you can find then yeah yeah yeah that's a great entry point yeah and one of the people in the group and like the second the third week said you know this is the kind of thing i used to do when i was working do you need help facilitating and i said yes were and you know we're all these other groups this is no we want our own women in retirement and so we can talk back and forth about how would that fit into the array of things that we do so that it didn't  we really focus that women in retirement group and younger more newly retired active women who also want to give back so that the other sort of leg of our tribal  because one of the things that you often lose as you move into the retirement years is that sense of purpose on yeah that was yes actually and i know that's something that's really dear to your hearts to yeah we have several volunteer opportunities including grand pals where we have one hundred ten volunteers reading with children in the schools ok so you can read but there's a friendship there's an intergenerational bond for heartwarming moments that heard about is when one of our participants was walking through the grocery store this little kid comes running up and gives her because the mom my grandma how i know you yeah and the kids you know i've had grandparents tell you that they're in the school and the fifth graders come running up to them and say yeah yeah yeah i remember when you were my list go to the grocery store come back and maybe have a cup of tea right yeah you're unpacking groceries together which is the social interaction right because a lot of those home based people really need that social interaction but because it's all hard to get yeah yeah the lonely messes he was yeah absolutely and even if your son or daughter stops by on saturday morning it's nice to have another face some time during the right price that's going to sit and really yeah right time to have a conversation so it's just a brief visit it doesn't replace home care and right you know what is that program called call friends home friends ok so you have the grand pals the home friends and then we've got people who help in the office as well we have many of the people who work at our front desk are volunteers and with our development events because we have to raise the money to make all of us have the right correct so we have some very busy development volunteers but if none of those things work i mean if you come in and there's always a lot of never been a they may want to go back to school they may want to start a business but i think volunteering is an area that we haven't really talked a lot about so the fact that you are there to kind of connect people who feel i'd like to volunteer i'm not they are driving they're active and they say you know i can only take one class because i'm also a dos and the i'm and i'm also taking care of my grandchildren twice a week and they're active but we know that things change over time correct so we are also there for you so we'll do home visits and and meet with you at your home if if you're a boy but we really want to help people through the journey to maintain independence and dignity right right that's so important that's so important now can you we're getting close to the end of our time with you and you believe it but one of the things that what some of the i wish we had or we're having this you know in the next two years we want to have this because we're seeing a need for something new i think that your question is mostly about program the difficulty that we're having right now what i need most is more space we've really grown it's a girl's face bakery her we don't have any classrooms available for us classrooms at the municipal building and we've also expanded this year so that some of our evergreen classes are taking place at the presbyterian church in lawrenceville ok which i've been saying wonderful wonderful partner we actually when i tallied it up we community yeah get it right one thing i didn't talk about computer i mean when we talk about what's going on so i don't know about you with a lot of my friends are finding that they're choosing retirement we have computer classes and we have computer lab twice a week where we have four or five fallen tears who help people one on one so they bring in their portable devices or they use their that we have in the lab to learn and keep up with those things ok one of my story moments there was some we start out the year with princeton university students helping out in a super lab we have like fifteen students you know thirty or forty or fifty years who come in in the afternoon just support programs avenue for that will blow into your instructor and you have students that are eager to take it where you have where you can and do it a v support you have to have the planning there have to have the publicity yes there's a huge lot of pieces that goes on this so that's an important piece that i was alluding to yeah all of those things in balance but right always open yeah to new suggestions of ideas and you know sometimes you have to sunset some things  isn't right yeah right journaling is yeah well so let's bring in something new and we also i think it's one of the things that distinguishes us from sort of the mental picture we have of the seasons that are yeah yeah is that we do have a lot of new programs every month and r hall and it is a municipal building which is part of our agreement with them to provide services for older adults in this community and our web site is w w w dot princeton