Non-Metro New Mexico Area Agency on Aging
Join us for our Annual Innovation Summit
May 14-16, 2025, Bernalillo, NM
-Making Every Day Count-
View the full program here.
May 14
1:30 pm-5:00 pm Advisory Council Meeting, Santa Ana Star Resort
6:00 pm-8:30 pm Opening Reception & Dance, Bernalillo Senior Center
May 15
9:00 am-5:00 pm Sessions & Activities at Santa Ana Star Resort
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Keynote Speaker Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death
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Estate Planning
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Fraud Prevention
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Updates from the Aging and Long-Term Services Department
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Understanding Dementia Needs
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The Benefits of Community Health Workers
5:30 pm-7:30 pm Dinner, Bosque Brewing Co.
May 16
9:00 am-11:15 am Sessions & Activities at Santa Ana Star Resort
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Alzheimer’s Awareness and Resources
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Nutrition Tips & Tricks
11:30 am Closing Barbeque, Bernalillo Senior Center
Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death
Gail Rubin is a pioneering death educator who uses humor, film clips and outside-the-box activities to teach about end-of-life topics. An award-winning speaker, she "knocked 'em dead" at TEDxABQ in 2015 with her talk, A Good Goodbye.
She’s the author of four books on end-of-life issues: A GOOD GOODBYE: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die, HAIL AND FAREWELL: Cremation Ceremonies, Templates and Tips, KICKING THE BUCKET LIST: 100 Downsizing and Organizing Things to Do Before You Die, and The Before I Die Festival in a Box.
She's also a Certified Thanatologist (a fancy name for a death educator), an informed advocate for planning ahead, a Certified Funeral Celebrant, host of the Doyenne of Death Podcast and Mortality Movies TV series, and the coordinator of the Before I Die New Mexico Festival.
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