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01/09/2025 01:00 pm
Seniors Rule: Age Like a Warrior with Robin Clare & Rebecca Sears : Defining Vitality
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Rebecca L. Sears
Seniors Rule: Age Like a Warrior with Robin Clare & Rebecca Sears Seniors Rule empowers you to see aging as a time of strength, resilience, and continued growth. Hosts Robin and Rebecca want you to walk away feeling inspired and equipped to take on new challenges, whether that means pursuing a second career, staying active, or engaging with your community. This show aims to dismantle the myths around aging, encouraging you to embrace your wisdom and experiences as assets that ... Read more Seniors Rule: Age Like a Warrior with Robin Clare & Rebecca Sears Seniors Rule empowers you to see aging as a time of strength, resilience, and continued growth. Hosts Robin and Rebecca want you to walk away feeling inspired and equipped to take on new challenges, whether that means pursuing a second career, staying active, or engaging with your community. This show aims to dismantle the myths around aging, encouraging you to embrace your wisdom and experiences as assets that can drive personal and societal change. About Rebecca ~ Senior Center Director - West Hartford Senior Centers, Town of West Hartford
Every 2nd Thursday 1pm PT / 4pm ET
Every 2nd Thursday 1pm PT / 4pm ET
Together we will deepen our understanding of mature workers’ challenges and triumphs and contribute to the larger conversation about aging with dignity. Seniors Rule is also about fostering a sense of purpose by highlighting the importance of breaking down stereotypes and being a vocal advocate for mature adults.
Seniors Rule: Age Like a Warrior connects you with a broader audience of mature workers and potential employers with resources to platforms like Seniors Job Bank and West Hartford Senior Centers. Both organizations are essential resources for mature adults looking to stay active, engaged, and fulfilled.
What is Age Like a Warrior? This means taking control of your aging journey, embracing the challenges of aging with resilience, and contributing positively to your own life and the world around you. It’s about stepping into your power and connecting with that power and taking ownership of it, whether through continued work, volunteerism, or simply staying active and engaged. Break the barriers of ageism, see the value that mature adults bring to society, and create spaces where everyone can thrive, regardless of their age.
Seniors Rule is a podcast for mature adults who refuse to slow down and for anyone who believes that life after 50 is filled with new opportunities. Each episode Robin and Rebecca offer stories, advice, and insights on how to age like a warrior—thriving, contributing, and breaking barriers in your community. Whether you’re looking for inspiration, practical tips on active aging, or ways to stay involved and fulfilled, this podcast is your guide to living boldly. Join Robin and Rebecca on Seniors Rule to learn how to ‘Age Like a Warrior’ and prove that seniors truly rule!
With over 35 years professional experience in senior health, senior living and senior recreation and engagement, Rebecca Sears has spent her entire professional career focused on the health and wellbeing of humans as they age.
Rebecca has been a Connecticut Certified Therapeutic Recreation Director since 1991. She was previously a Certified Dementia Practitioner. Rebecca has been a Certified Reiki Master Practitioner since 2010. She is also a Certified Park and Recreation Professional. Rebecca received her BS in Business Management from Bay Path College.
Her expertise includes recreation programming for independent seniors in the community as well as therapeutic recreation programming for seniors in clinical settings, assisted living and those with dementia.
Rebecca began her career working with seniors in long term care where she witnessed the full impact of poor diet, substance abuse, social isolation and untreated medical and psychological diagnoses as people age. She witnessed a lack of independence, privacy and dignity in institutional care in the 1990’s. At that point, patients were cared for by a medical model system that was focused on treatment, rather than preventative measures that addressed the mind, body and spirit on an individual. The goal to work in the clinical field quickly transitioned into a passion for purpose through engagement. Over her career she has worked in community relations, providing outreach and education to seniors in the community. Through this work, she found her life’s passion in Directing two senior centers in West Hartford, CT. In this setting she is creating space where retiring adults to 100+ year old seniors can care for their bodies through exercise and nutritional programs, stimulate their minds with intellectual programming and explore their purpose, value and connection to others.
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