Spring 2027 Offerings Wanted!

Our goal is to create over 70 multi-week courses, with an emphasis for more classes at the Braintree or Hingham Library.

Does a 5-6 week course seem too much? Considering creating a one-time lecture, presentation, or workshop. We have found that many OLLI students enjoy and appreciate shorter commitments due to their busy schedules. These OLLI Talks are great opportunities that still deliver high learning impact to our members!

Get out onto the streets or trails with a walking tour! Walking tours are more about the education than the exercise, but participants still get their steps in! Tour leaders design a 90-minute (or two-hour) walk that often highlight the history, architecture, and/or people of a given area.



We hope you will consider teaching for OLLI or encourage folks you know to share their knowledge with curious OLLI members!

Questions? Want more information? Please send an email to OLLI Proposal, and one of the staff will get back to you!

Grandfamilies:

Rising to the Challenge of Raising Another

Today, 2.5 million children live in grandfamilies, or families headed by grandparents, aunts and uncles, siblings, or close family friends. A recent report by Generations United found that grandfamilies save taxpayers more than $10 billion each year by keeping children out of foster care.

In her new book, Grandfamilies: Stories of Children and the Loving Relatives Who Raise Them, Donna Butts explores the unique

challenges, resilience, and successes of grandfamilies through the stories of caregivers and the children they raise. This session will use these stories to highlight how public policy and perceptions of grandfamilies and kinship care have changed over the past 30 years, and what more is needed to help these families thrive.

About the presenter: Donna Butts is an award-winning nonprofit executive, author, and nationally recognized advocate for intergenerational solutions that benefit children, youth, older adults, and families. For more than twenty-seven years, Donna served as Executive Director of Generations United, a national nonprofit dedicated to strengthening communities and families through intergenerational policy and practice.

This is a free, Osher Online Community Event open to any current OLLI member. We are grateful to the Osher National Resource Center at Northwestern University in making this program available to OLLI members.

Dementia Caregiver Research Study

Are you a caregiver for an individual living with dementia? Or know someone who is? Do you or they use a smartphone?

If so, consider participating in a current research study at UMass Boston that aims to develop a mindfulness app for caregivers to help manage the stress of caring for someone with dementia.

While mindfulness training has been shown to reduce stress, many caregivers are unable to attend in-person programs due to time and caregiving demands. Mobile mindfulness apps may offer a more flexible and accessible alternative.

Questions? Want to participate?

Contact Katherine Richman via email or phone (617.876.0667). This research study is open to the public; you do not need to be an OLLI member to participate.