TEDxSoCal - Tim Carpenter - Thriving As We Age

Tim Carpenter is the founder of EngAGE and host/producer of the EXPERIENCE TALKS radio show. EngAGE is a nonprofit that transforms aging and the way people think about aging by turning affordable senior apartment communities into vibrant centers of learning, wellness and creativity. EngAGE provides life-enhancing arts, wellness, lifelong learning, community building and intergenerational programs and events to thousands of seniors living in Southern California.


Tim catalyzed the creation of the Burbank Senior Artists Colony, a first-of-its-kind senior apartment community with high-end arts amenities and programs. In 2008, Tim was elected an Ashoka Fellow for being one of the top social entrepreneurs in the world, and in 2011, Tim received the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award.

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[sweetreadersinc.]

The world needs more Tim Carpenters. As our aging population balloons and lives longer, these are exactly the kinds of ideas we need to get behind. Go Tim!!

[JoeStauffacher]

We all learn from one another... the old learn from the youth and the youth learn from the old. Thanks Tim for offering such excellent insight.

[rkwakernaak]

Thank you for your presentation Tim! And thank you for founding EngAGE!!!

[TheBrendaMari]

I am such a fan. I like your ideas and the way you express them, Tim. I love how you use words, honesty, and directness. Thank you for encouraging us to experience aging as a natural part of our development that can lead us to a full realization of our human potential.Love your ideas.

[geribartholomew]

Wonderful topic! This is definitely the road we need to be pursuing with the aging population in this country.

[beamazinglyyou]

Love your message Tim Carpenter. Here in London Ontario, Canada we have a Creative Age Festival and Showcase each year working in collaboration with our libraries. I met the wonderfully imaginative, exhuberant founder Kathy Smith when responding to an ad for "older models" for a charity fashion show at a Retirement Home. As a senior myself I write and speak about as well as practising "Awesome Agting." Thank-you for your eloquent testimonial to the glorious aspects of creativity as we age. Positively, Pauline Duncan-Thrasher

[videocontention]

Great presentation Tim. Let's spread the word!

[calvinwatkinsjr.]

Great speaker, important subject. Someone doing something about a massive issue in our society.

[TheBrendaMari]

I'm in love with life again. Your talk helped me reflect on and define my passion for becoming a gerontologist.Thank you for expressing your convictions and putting them out there. Please strengthen your social media presence as your model will be more in demand as time passes. Thank you, thank you, Love, love. Brenda

[rriggs]

Great Talk Tim, and great to meet you at TEDx!!!-Ray

[seattlecathy]

Getting old is better than the alternative...if we can live independently and maintain the capability to enjoy the things that make life worthwhile. Getting old in a nursing home? The alternative is better. We're finding more and more that people age better when they *don't* retire.

[AngelaGGentile]

I'd love to see "Bandida - A pistol, a plan and sensible shoes". Where can I see this?

[stephenkingking]

Please do not show this to a Republican.. They want old people to go to church and die there....