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  • Aging Seminar: Experience Corps: Lessons for building social capital

    Wednesday, May 14, 2025
    12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
    Online Event
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    SPRING 2025 SEMINARS OF THE ROBERT N. BUTLER COLUMBIA AGING CENTER | Assets of Aging: A Series on the Capabilities that Accrue with Longer Lives Join us for the Columbia Aging Center's ONLINE seminar, one in a series focusing on the assets of aging and the capabilities that accrue with longer lives. Please register to attend via Zoom on May 14, 2025. Details and registration link below.   WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2025, 12:30PM-1:30PM ET Experience Corps as a model for structural social capital for an aging society Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH Director Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center Dean & DeLamar Professor Columbia Mailman School of Public Health Virtual Seminar Location: Zoom Register to attend via Zoom at: https://columbiacuimc.zoom.us/meeting/register/F5RAs9AJTueV27a88CMJdA   Experience Corps is a community-based senior volunteer program that leverages the skills and experiences of older adults to improve the academic success of children in elementary schools by providing one-on-one or small group tutoring, with the goal of improving the students' reading skills and building their social-emotional learning abilities.