A recent issue of Time Magazine ran an article about an online service that enables people 60 years and older to offfer advice and share life experiences with younger people. www.elderwisdomcircle.org

 

 

It started with a 45-year-old man named Doug Meckelson who had always turned to his grandmother and favorite mentor.  When she died in 1987 he found similar counsel when he volunteered at a senior center in San Francisco. "As I listened to these elders," he recalls, "I thought  how great it would be to set up a web site where cybergrandparents could share their experiences to help others.

 

This was the genesis of Elder Wisdom Circle, a goup of people 60 years or older who offer advice to anyone writing in to seek it.

 

The web site, started with one advice giver, now has about 600, most of whom find out through their senior center or by word of mouth.  They field about 3,500 letters a month, 35% of which come from young people in their teens to early twenties.

 

What a wonderful idea!  Check into the web site and learn more about it. Maybe some of you will want to become advice givers.