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Frank Caro 1936-2020
BrooklineCAN founder
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Town of Brookline Shares Cold Weather Safety Tips
Advice from Emergency Management Director/Fire Chief John F. Sullivan.
Moderna Booster (Only) Vaccine Clinic
Thursday, January 20
The Massachusetts Mobile Vaccination program will be offering a Moderna booster vaccine clinic, in collaboration with the Brookline Council On Aging, on Thursday, January 20 at the Brookline Senior Center..
Please note that only Moderna booster shots will be offered at this clinic.
Click here to schedule an appointment, or call 617-730-2777 for additional assistance.
Please be sure to have your vaccine card and your health insurance cards available as you will need to provide that information to schedule an appointment.
At Brookline Day, September 24, 2017, BrooklineCAN offered a quiz at its table.
Questions and answers
Daylight saving time ends
Sunday, November 7 at 2:00 AM.
Turn your clocks back 1 hour.
Flag Day June 14
until spring!
today
1:30 – 6:30
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Ends Today, November 18
Brookline Day 2017
September 13th, 11am-3pm at Larz Anderson Park.We'll be there. Come visit us. Details.
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Brookline Community Aging Network –
How we work with other organizations that serve older adults.
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Age‑Friendly Cities TV
The Town's Age Friendly Cities committee is offering a series of TV shows with the help of the Brookline Interactive Group.
In May, 2017, Brookline Interactive Group presented its Show of the Year award to Age‑Friendly Cities TV.
All episodes
Host:
Matt Weiss
Producer:
Michael Allen
Director:
Ann Theis
Graphics:
John Seay
Episode 35. 1/14/2022. Brookline Town Clerk
Guest:
Ben Kaufman, Brookline Town Clerk
Address:
333 Washington St.
1st Floor, Room 104
Brookline, MA 02445
1st Floor, Room 104
Brookline, MA 02445
Phone:
617-730-2010
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Selected Topics
Shovel Our Snow
Need some help with snow removal this winter? Sign up for BRec's Shovel our Snow referral program! Once registered, we will send you a list of local teens who have signed up to be shovelers with the program. It is then up to you to contact them and coordinate projects (location, hours, payment, etc). Updated rosters will be sent out as they become available. More Information.
3G Cellular Network Shutdown
Brookline Office of Emergency Management Provides Information Ahead of 3G Cellular Network ShutdownWinter Guide
for Brookline Property Owners, Businesses, and Residents. Brookline Department of Public Works.
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Parkinson's in Motion
Goddard House is sponsoring two programs for older adults with Parkinson's.
On Thursdays from 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Living Musically with Parkinson's, will feature music therapist and neuroscientist, Joshua Min, who specializes in working with older adults, and those living with Parkinson's, to help improve their quality of life through the power of music. Learn techniques, songs, and concepts to strengthen and uplift your body, your brain, and your mood.
Tai Chi for Parkinson's is offered Tuesdays 10:30 am -11:30 pm. Designed specifically to improve strength, balance, flexibility, mental focus and emotional tranquility, tai chi has been proven to help minimize the symptoms of Parkinson's. Join Instructor, Ruth Schechter, an experienced tai chi teacher for older adults and individuals living with Parkinson's. Trained as a musician, Ruth has experience with the Alexander Technique and the Feldenkrais Method, as well as tai chi.
Both programs are free and on Zoom. For more information and to register contact Christine Nagle at .
Senior Center Autumn Benefit (without the Gala)
Once again Covid-19 has derailed the Brookline Senior Center's largest fundraiser of the year. In its place is the "No-Gala" Autumn Benefit, with more benefits for donors and sponsors. Your sponsorship supports medical transportation, hunger reduction, client emergencies, and programs to help older adults cope with social isolation and depression. Sponsorship levels range from $100+ to $2,500+; sponsors will receive gift cards from local Age-Friendly businesses, as well as ads in the next edition of "Ask a Geriatrician" at the $300+ and above levels. , Full details on sponsorship (due by November 19). Please also know that donations of any amount are graciously accepted. For more information, contact Ruthann Dobek at or 617-730-2756.Brookline's older adults and ARPA.
Betsy Pollock, president of the Senior Center's Board of Directors says:Please remember, include, and address the needs of Brookline’s older adult population when making decisions about the allocation of the . . . funds from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).Read Betsy's letter.
Food Pantry needs volunteers!
Thank you for helping us serve so many needy people over the past 18 months. With clients still coming to us in record numbers, we really need additional volunteers and hope you will tell family, friends, and neighbors about the opportunity to help. Potential volunteers can learn more and connect with us here.
We are also seeking a full-time Inventory Manager to play a key operational role and would appreciate your sharing this opportunity with family, friends and neighbors. In addition to managing Pantry inventory and assisting with daily operations, this role includes driving food between locations and lifting boxes up to 50 lbs. For more information, or if someone you know might want to apply, please contact Julia at
The Brookline Food Pantry (BFP) serves over 700 needy households around Brookline, Massachusetts each week, providing fresh produce, meat and dairy as well as household staples. The BFP also serves over 500 students weekly during the school year with weekend food bags and delivers food to clients who cannot get to our three locations. The BFP has a small paid staff as well as over 200 active volunteers who help deliver these key services.
Brookline Department of Public Health Offers Food Coupons
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Locations and dates to sign up for vouchers.
Trees planted honoring Frank Caro
The Town has planted two trees at Hall's Pond in memory of Frank Caro, the President of the Friends of Hall's Pond, long time Town Meeting Member, founder ofBrookline Green Energy
Did you know that whether you are a renter or a home owner in Brookline (we're split about even, 50:50), you can still take part in the Brookline Green Electricity program? You can sign up for 100% renewable electricity just by using your Eversource bill information and the Enrollment Form on the Town of Brookline website. Thanks to the Town, all Brookline residents can take part in a program that is good for consumers and the environment.Tommy Vitolo interviews Elenore Parker
Elenore Parker was State Representative Tommy Vitolo's guest on his weekly TV show.Watch here.
Vaccine companion warning.
On February 11 Massachusetts began allowing people who accompany residents 75 years and older to mass vaccination sites to get their own shots as well. Now some younger people are offering free rides to strangers. Council on Aging Director Ruthann Dobek and Public Health Commissioner Dr. Swannie Jett strongly advise seniors to only accept rides from family members or people they know well. News release.Boston's Older Population: Increasing in Racial articleersity, but Quality of Life is Shaped by Racism, Discrimination
A new report from UMass Boston identifies aging equity among Boston residents.Pedestrian Safety
Brookline's DPW & Commission on Disability Share Resources to Help Ensure Pedestrian SafetyEviction Diversion Initiative
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health wants to reach households early and before an eviction takes place and to provide funding and mediation tools to work with landlords. We've launched a new website that connects residents to their local Housing Consumer Education Center, answers frequently asked questions, and more at www.mass.gov/CovidHousingHelp.
Living With COVID-19 Survey
Understanding that everyone has to assess their own level of risk, we can be a wonderful resource for one another during these difficult days. Sharing what we are doing and how we are doing it, as well as what we are not doing, can help us to better understand the needs of our senior community.
An online copy of the survey is available here.
If you would like a hard copy of the survey mailed to you, please call us at 617-730-2777.
$$$ for Senior Homeowners & Renters!
You may qualify for cash or credit from the state if you pay rent or property taxes. Click for details.Assisting People With Vision Loss During The Pandemic.
Town of Brookline Releases Instructional Video Guide. The Town of Brookline, Massachusetts has just released a new instructional video telling and showing via demonstration clips how to guide a person with vision loss in a variety of everyday situations. This video is free to all and may be used by any agencies, organizations, groups, or individuals who find it useful.Complete news release.
Link to Video.
Brookline's Age‑Friendly Cities TV team helped produce this video.
BIG and Brookline Community
Brookline Interactive Group continues our service in meeting Brookline's communications needs, helping our community to share their stories, and keeping our democracy transparent.This week's coverage of the Fourth District Congressional race is comprehensive- partnering with the League of Women Voters and Brookline for Racial Justice and Equity (BRJE), our colleagues at seven other community media centers from north to south, to support two candidate's forums for this important race. Our ongoing collaboration with State Representative, Tommy Vitolo, produces a thirty-minute weekly show to highlight each candidate in more detail.
Stay tuned and read more about our online classes, new community content, youth media programs, and to participate by creating your own scene in our 2020 Crowdsourced Boston production of Cast Away!
Full details here.
Phone-friendly BrooklineCAN website
When we created this web site in 2011, we designed it for wide-screen desktop systems. Now many people use smaller phones and tablets. Our site could always use those devices, but the pages didn't really fit. Now we automatically rearrange content so it displays comfortably on all devices. As screens get narrower so do paragraphs; two columns become one; the menu disappears but can be recalled by pressing a button. You can see these changes on your desktop or laptop computer by narrowing the browser window. We hope this will make our site more useable on all screens.
Walkable Brookline Survey
Visitors toA report on opinions of older Brookline residents
In 2018 Brookline participated in the National Citizen Survey, an effort to capture the opinions of residents on a wide range of topics concerning the Town. We are reporting here a special analysis that compared responses of those 65 and older with younger respondents. The analysis shows both similarities and differences between the responses of older and younger residents. . Full report.More Beacon Street benches.
In January 2019 Frank Caro asked the Town's Department of Public Works to consider adding five additional benches on Beacon Street. Here is Frank's report. This is an initiative ofUpdate, August 2019: The town has installed five new benches. Pictures here.
TRIPPS report
This report, issued April 1, 2019 by TRIPPS (Transportation Resources, Information, Planning & Partnership for Seniors), describes local transportation experiences of Brookline Seniors in the context of current research on older adults, transportation and community life.BrooklineCAN announces its new Age‑Friendly Business campaign.
Details here.
The Silent Call Procedure
The Silent Call Procedure is used when a caller is unable to verbally communicate their emergency over the phone. If a resident of Massachusetts calls 9-1-1 and is unable to speak for any reason.
Tax preparation
List of tax preparation services and other resources.Designing Communities For An Aging America
In an aging nation, what makes an age‑friendly community? We look at what U.S. cities can do to help seniors live better. On Point radio show, WBUR 90.9, Listen to or download the podcastScams directed toward the elderly
Brookline Police issue warning about scams directed toward seniors. Details.Serving Seniors in Brookline Parks
An article by Frank Caro, chairman ofScam alert
Facebook post from Brookline Police:Non-emergency number is 617-730-2222.Today we have received several calls from Brookline residents, who have reported receiving suspicious calls from pming to be the IRS. The callers then stated that they were filing a lawsuit against the residents before asking for personal information. If you receive such a call, it is NOT the IRS, it is a scam.
Scam alert
Tweet from Brookline Police:Extortion SCAM from local 617 telephone #. Be wary if you receive demand for money due to "Accident" "Kidnapping," etc. Call Police for help.
New Windows 10 scam will encrypt your files for ransom
A cautionary tale in being patient, and not skipping the line. Details here.Support Disclaimer: Inclusion of services on this website does not represent a recommendation from the Brookline Council on Aging, the Brookline Senior Center, or the Brookline Community Aging Network.
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