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
Thank you all for attending our 2024-25 season of seminars!
Past Seminars from this Season
May 17, 2025 – Creating Your Living Legacy and Living Will
What matters to you the most and how do you want to be remembered? Is your life just a sum total of your property, possessions and last will and testament? Or would you rather be known for your achievements and gifts that have impacted others for the better? If so, then don't miss joining your PALS for this enlightening and informative seminar exploring the LGBTQ+ movement's rich heritage and the key steps we each can take to create a lasting legacy that will honor, benefit and uplift our community's future generations for years to come.
April 19, 2025 – Rightsizing Your Life: When is it Time to Let Go?
Navigating the golden years comes with many decisions, the most important is knowing when to downsize, rightsize or upsize your home environment to better fit your current and future life stages. It’s a step that involves financial considerations, lifestyle changes and emotional decisions. And it’s not about letting go of the emotional anchors holding the highs and lows and beautiful chapters of your life and important relationships — it’s about making space for new possibilities that are more manageable and financially beneficial as well as enhancing your comfort and overall quality of life.
Did you miss our presentation? You can view/download a PDF of it here.
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!
To view our Archive of other past seminars, please click the RESOURCES menu tab at the top of the screen and select PALS PRESENTATION ARCHIVE.
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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