We are excited to bring you the first annual conference of the Aging and Disability Resource Consortium of the Greater North Shore: Living Life Easier. We invite you to learn more about the new options for modifying your home and community to live more easily and fully as you choose. There are a variety of devices, equipment, resources and services that are available to all of us for staying in our own homes and communities. This new era of adapting our environments to complement our individual needs is here! Come and learn how this can be useful to you and those your know!
KEYNOTE SPEAKER | Valerie Fletcher
Executive Director, Adaptive Environments Inc. a Boston-based non-profit committed to advancing the role of design in expanding opportunity and enhancing experience for people of all ages and abilities since 1978. Ms. Fletcher lectures and writes internationally and has worked with the UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs on the development of the new Treaty on the Human Rights of People with Disabilities.
GUEST SPEAKERS
Dr. Jean Flatley McGuire, Assistant Secretary, Disability Policies and Programs, Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
Ellie Shea-Delaney, Acting Secretary, Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs.
Charlie Carr, Commissioner, Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission.
Thom Muxie, Disability advocate and member of the Peabody Disability Commission.
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Registration $25 per attendee (no charge for aides)
CART services for plenary sessions may be provided.
Executive Director, Adaptive Environments Inc. a Boston-based non-profit committed to advancing the role of design in expanding opportunity and enhancing experience for people of all ages and abilities since 1978. Ms. Fletcher lectures and writes internationally and has worked with the UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs on the development of the new Treaty on the Human Rights of People with Disabilities.
