Campaign
We welcome you to join the POOL STORIES community: through this website, and – when the film is done – through the film and its community engagement campaign. The POOL STORIES project is an intimate look at healthy aging in the 21st century and a forum for public discourse around how we envision “old age,” especially for women. This website and our community engagement campaign are being created through a collaborative, community-based process. The campaign will use the website and film to further our organizational partners’ work promoting positive body image, healthy aging, social connection, healthy lifestyles, and elder adventure.
JOIN OUR CAMPAIGN
If you or your organization are interested in becoming a community partner of the POOL STORIES project, please contact us!
You are visiting the first draft of our website. When complete, this site will:
- extend and build upon the stories in the film, offering a kaleidoscope of lives and themes that came together in our pool
- connect site visitors to participating organizations: their services, campaigns, and issues
- offer resources and learning tools for positive aging and wellness, including videos, articles, anecdotes, statistics, and more
- link site visitors to local water exercise classes, swimming pools, senior centers, and information about health and community services for older adults
What is Healthy Aging?
Our team – aquacize class members, filmmakers, health care professionals, eldercare organizations, and experts on aging – got together to brainstorm our definitions of wellness and aging. Here’s what we came up with.
Wellness Is....
- Feeling positive
- Not being sick
- Feeling content, doing well
- Healthy mind-body-spirit relationship
- Inner peace, not just the absence of disease
Aging Is....
- What we're all going through
- Different for everyone
- New opportunities to do new things
- Change
- Like going to another country
- An evolution
We will continue to answer these questions collaboratively as the project continues. For now, please enjoy these short films.
I'm A Water Lily
The Originals
Why Water Exercise?
The Healing Power of Water
Community Partners
We are seeking organizational and community partners. If you or your organization are interested in becoming a partner on the POOL STORIES project, please contact us to discuss the possibilities!
Co-Create With Us
We invite you to help us grow this website. The link below will take you to a survey where you can give feedback on the website and make suggestions for the campaign. The website will evolve based on your feedback and on the developing needs of our partners. The survey will be open through December 2019. Please feel free to share this website and the survey link with others in your community.
Join the Conversation
What do you think? Please visit our Facebook page and join the conversation.