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Knowledge For The Ages
Enriching and Empowering Seniors
An innovative center to assist with life's transitions and a gathering place to develop
new friendships and gain knowledge to enrich and empower your life.
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Our Mission
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Our Mission is to enrich, enhance, educate enlighten
and empower the lives of seniors. Providing guidance to
assist with navigating through the emotional and
financial decisions we must make involving family,
finances, government aid and wellness as we reach our
golden years.
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We will provide a place to gather, learn and enjoy the
social interaction with our peers, each embracing
similar challenges while empowering independence and
sustainability for our seniors and their families.
+ Who We Are
 Larry
Perna
I grew up in San Diego, attended Patrick Henry High School and graduated from San Diego State
University.
I have been given the opportunity to open a community center for seniors. My interest in opening
a center stems from my special attachment and admiration for the senior community.
As an only child, I acted as the caregiver for my father, grandmother, two aunts and my mother.
Enduring the journey with my mom was the most difficult for many reasons but it also was the
most educational.
I learned that in the process of coping with the challenges of being a sole caregiver, one is forced
to quickly learn to educate themselves thoroughly with regard to the multitude of regulations for
Medicare, Medical, Social Security and Insurance. In addition there are financial and legal
ramifications attached to almost every decision you and your family will make. Maintaining
dignity and trust are paramount.
My professional background encompasses over 30 years as both an independent business owner,
and a Director of Human Resources for a large, 700 employee, private transportation company
over three states. My partners and I have a 25-plus year relationship that continues to thrive.
Together we’ve endured and shared life’s challenges. Our sole desire is to contribute and give
something back to those who so earnestly deserve it.
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 Joe Wirth
Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Joe Wirth and my passion for supporting, assisting and enhancing the
lives of our senior community is a primary focus for me and my family. I have had the pleasure of knowing my
counterpart, Larry Perna, for more than 25 years as a business partner, colleague and most importantly, friend.
I spent a large majority of my career developing a family owned business—taking it from a local 2.5 million
dollar company to more than $50 million dollars in sales and providing services throughout California, Arizona
and Nevada. I was fortunate in that the founder of the company treated me like a son. As he emerged into his
senior years I was afforded the opportunity to help him navigate the myriad of insurance, retirement and financial
options available to him and his family. With his dignity intact, he retired well and the legacy he left behind not
only benefitted his immediate family, but the 700 individuals, and their families, in his employ.
My mother, who had struggled financially in her later years, was residing in a deteriorating mobile home park
that was becoming unsafe to live in. My research led me to HUD and after helping her qualify for government
assisted living we were able to successfully move her into a safe, productive and thriving senior community. The
quality of my mother’s life changed dramatically. She quickly transitioned from an isolated and lonely existence
to engaging in various activities and began working with underprivileged children and supporting the local
community centers with numerous programs and events.
Our desire is simple—we seek to bring our combined professional practices and personal knowledge to bear in an
effort to empower the lives of our senior community. As we have experienced first-hand, the transition into
retirement or disability can be confusing, frustrating and downright frightening. We seek to dramatically
minimize that angst. Our approach is based upon three primary principles—compassion, education and at the
end of the day, fun.
Our seniors’ golden years have been well earned. Now is the time to allow others to ensure that they enjoy them!
+ Who We Are
 Christie Talbot
My responsibility as the primary caregiver for my father who resided two states, California
and Florida, gave me hands on experience in navigating the process of obtaining benefits
under Medi-Cal and Medicaid (Florida) as well as applying for and obtaining Medicare
disability benefits. I assisted my father over numerous relocations throughout the latter
part of his life. These relocations were in both states. Each move entailed establishing care
as well as coordinating doctor visits, residential facilities, medical, and other benefits.
My profession as a mother and educator who actually creates curriculum for my school,
demand the ability to embrace varied personalities both parent, student and administrator.
Part of my job is to enable parents, students, teachers and administrators to all work
toward the common objective, providing the best education our students can obtain.
I possess a Bilingual, Multiple Subject K-8 Teaching Credential, M.A. in Special Education,
B.S. in Communicative Disorders for Speech and Language Pathology and am also a
certified Autism Specialist, Reading Specialist and certified assistant in Speech Language
Pathology.
Providing our seniors with resources and guidance for their wellness and offering
programs and activities that enrich their lives is what excites me about our organization. It
is an opportunity to come full circle and give back to those who who have given us so
much.
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Some of the Challenges we faced
with our families included:
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Availability of health care including the myriad of Medicare
supplement plans.
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Wellness and healthy diet.
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Types of, cost and availability of senior housing.
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What to do with my home to avoid probate.
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Maintaining an active lifestyle.
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Identifying and preventing elder abuse.
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Embracing technology.
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Holistic approaches to wellness.
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And much, much more…
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Programs to Enhance Your Life
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senior community center will offer a myriad of
relevant, fun activities.
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center will also offer a rich learning
environment to provide our guests with the
necessary resources they and their families need
to gain knowledge and make healthy sound
decisions regarding the issues that rise to the
forefront of our lives as seniors.
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Our Offerings:
Our Offerings will be driven by the seniors we serve. However here are
some senior centric topics we thought important to target:
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Navigating Medicare parts A, B, & D.
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Medi-Cal Eligibility and Qualifying.
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Medicare Supplement Insurance Explained.
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Long Term Care Options.
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Avoiding Probate.
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Reverse Mortgages-Friend or Foe?
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Elder Abuse Prevention.
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Financial Predators-Spotting them and Preventing Abuse.
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Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle.
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Our Offerings:
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Effectiveness of Patented Medicine
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Embracing Technology from Smartphones to iPads.
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Holistic Alternatives.
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Alternative Wellness Programs.
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Cooking Healthy
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Bingo.
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DVD-Movies and Library.
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Low Impact Exercise.
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We Need You!
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Our center thrives due to your generous financial and volunteer support for the seniors
we embrace.
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Spread the word about our Mission! Tell anyone you know who you feel would benefit
or might have a family member who would benefit from our center!
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Your compassion enriches their lives in more ways than you’ll ever know. We are so
grateful for your support. Our center will thrive because of your generous financial
support through direct donations, contributions and/or sponsorship. Your support will
enable us to enrich and empower the lives of our seniors and will enrich their lives in
more ways than you will ever know.
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Your generosity will make a difference in our community by allowing us to continue our
work for our seniors. If you are one with our mission and are interested in becoming a
sponsor, please contact us.
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We want to see you at our neighborhood meetings that will begin soon and be held in
various communities throughout San Diego.
Please feel free to bring any family
member you would like as it does become a family matter and their input is welcomed,
necessary and valued. Check out our website for event dates and times!