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Welcome to GPLI!
Welcome to the website of the Gerontology Professionals of Long Island. First formed in 1990, GPLI has served as a networking and educational center for nurses, social workers, service providers, educators, advocates, students, and scores of other professionals who serve the aging population of Long Island.
The latest version of Prime Lines, the official newsletter of GPLI, is now available. To access this newsletter online, look at the PDF link at the bottom of this page. You must have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read the PDF. This application is free from Adobe Acrobat.
Visions of Aging Film Festival Coming in October!
On Sunday, October 30, at 1:00 PM GPLI joins St. Joseph's College in what may be the first ever Aging Film Festival on Long Island. Posters and flyers are out and publicity is proceeding to draw elders, their families, students and professionals to this amazing event.
Besides showing Young at Heart, a documentary about a Senior Choral group (think of crossing Glee, with On Golden Pond, and Woodstock), there will be actual music provided by Stan Zizka from the original DelSatins.
A few small art films will be shown, followed by the feature film Gen Silent. This last film in the festival, another documentary explores the inner conflict of aging gay and lesbian, transgendered and bisexual adults who spent their younger years in the closet and now fear having to return as they explore long term care.
Festival Location is St. Joseph's College Auditorium located just off Roe Blvd. in Patchogue.
There is a suggested donation of $10 to the GPLI scholarship fund. ($5 for Seniors.)
For more information, contact Carolyn by email: cgallogly@sjcny.edu
GPLI Meetings for 2011-2012
GPLI Meetings for 2011-2012
First meeting September 20 Tuesday Night 6:30-8:30 LI Museum of ART, History and Carriages "Art Program for Individuals with Memory Loss" Download PDF below.
October 30, 2011 Sunday Afternoon, 1 PM--6 PM Visions of Aging Film Festival St. Joseph's College Watch for more details!
February 29 6:30 PM Reducing Pain and Inflammation Naturally Dr. W. Brent Reynolds, Location: The Arbors @ Bohemia
April 18 6:30 PM Health Disparities in Aging Adesuwa Obasohan MPH, Suffolk County Office of Minority Health Location: Hertlin House
GPLI Members at Long Island Museum at Stony Brook
First GPLI Aging Film Festival
October 30, 2011 Reserve this date and plan to bring your friends for an afternoon of film celebrating aging. The festival will be a Sunday afternoon event, with 4-5 films, some long, some short, to get you thinking about growing older, in its sadness and in its glory. Some of the films will provoke you to think in new ways about aging, and some will make you laugh. But all of them will give you some new lenses to view "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be. . ."
Need to Know Bulletins: New from GPLI and Prime Lines These Bulletins are brief summaries of breaking news in the field of aging. Heat stroke is back in the news as another outbreak of preventable deaths is occurring, mostly in the elderly. Poor Japan. First it suffered the tsunami, then the nuclear powerplant radiation danger, and now temperatures 3.8 degrees higher than the 30 year average. Although the temperatures are not so dangerous by U.S. standards, 79.5 degrees, air conditioning has been turned off in line with government appeals to curb electricity use to avoid blackouts. Since June 1, 26 people died from heat stroke, compared to 6 during the same time period last year. People taken by ambulance to hospitals for heatstroke more than tripled to 12, 973 and half of those were 65 or older, a group considered "most at risk."
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Prime Lines is the publication of the Gerontology Professionals of Long Island. It is now available on line. Please click the icon above which says PDF, and open your copy of the Summer 2009 Edition. If you wish to copy or distribute any information from this PDF, and are not a member, please request permission from GPLI by contacting Carolyn Gallogly at this email address: cgallogly@sjcny.edu
If you have any difficulty opening the PDF, you can request a sample copy of the newsletter by contacting Carolyn Gallogly, at the address listed above.
Membership Information Membership in GPLI entitles you to announcements of meetings and conferences, directories of membership, issues of Prime Lines (usually published twice per year), as well as the opportunity to regularly communicate with other professionals in the field of aging concerning professional growth, advocacy, and marketable services. There are four meetings each year, an annual June dinner, and occasional special events. There are two categories of membership: Organizational Membership (Two representatives for $50) and Professional/Student Membership ($35). See Page 2 for an application.
Gerontology Professionals of Long Island, Copyright 2011
