PALS Mission is to create a community of seniors who look out for each other by informing and educating LGBTQ+ people and allies on all aspects of planning ahead before health or life-altering situations arise.
PALS accomplishes its mission by offering informational and educational programs year-round that include no cost seminars, workshops, resource materials and special events both in-person and online.
PALS Alert
PALS is sharing three timely publications with you:
- Equality California has just published the LGBTQ+ Housing Report
- SAGE and the Human Rights Campaign have put together an excellent guide titled 'Facing the Future Together.'
- For transgender, gender expansive, intersex people and their allies, the Fact Sheet published by California LGBTQ+, Civil Rights, and Health Care Advocates informs about Your Rights in California in Response to Recent Executive Orders.
PALS Seminars and Events
Coming up on April 19, 2025 – Rightsizing Your Life: When is it Time to Let Go?
Past Seminars
March 15, 2025
Compassionate Caregiving Before and After Reaching Your Limit
Guest Speaker: Quintina Nordman – Care Advocate
Caregiving is an act of love and concern. These two emotions drive us to exert ourselves on behalf of loved ones, who need our support and attention. However, we often find ourselves in a satins where we are depleted, and the quality of care we can give is diminished. This seminar will offer options to circumvent caregiver fatigue and allow participants to share their experiences. Our guest speaker will present on the challenges and options for optimal caregiving, based on her long-time experience in the field.
Did you miss our seminar? We recorded the entire session for you and it will be available here shortly.
February 15, 2025
Cycling Through Grief – Reclaiming Life After Loss
Answering the phone and learning about the death of a loved one is certainly one of life’s most devastating moments. As long as we live, we will encounter personal and social loss. Universally, the AIDS epidemic and the resultant widespread death that decimated the gay world’s young population. COVID-19 raged, denying family members the chance to say goodbye. As we get older, we continue to face the personal loss of parents, siblings, partners and friends. Join PALS for an enlightening and candid discussion on the impact of intimate loss and the unique ways LGBTQ+ seniors grieve and evolve through such loss. Psychotherapist Jamie Trachtenberg will illuminate this trajectory, with panelists Christopher Christensen and Atma Wiseman. We welcome your voice to this life-affirming discussion.
Did you miss our seminar? We recorded the entire session for you. Click here to view it!
You can also download the Powerpoint Presentation here.
January 18, 2025
Combatting Scammers, Fakes & Thieves…Oh My!
Were you unable to attend? Watch the recorded Seminar!
Also, we have created a separate page of our website to help you better understand and respond to threats to your security; both online and in the physical world. Click here!
Future Seminars
May 17, 2025 – Creating Your Living Legacy and Living Will
PALS ongoing meetings online
Every Monday at 6PM: PALS Circle on Zoom Click here to attend.
Every FIRST Thursday of the month (Sept. 5, Oct. 3, Nov. 7, etc.): PALS Death Café, offers a safe place for facilitated free discussion on matters of mortality and planning ahead. Click here to attend.
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