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Date: 9/3/2019
HOLYOKE – Are you getting ready to retire? Are you retired but looking for something more? The Autumn Festival, presented by Baystate Senior Class on Sept. 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Baystate Health Education Center, 361 Whitney Ave. in Holyoke, might have the information you’re looking for.
Titled “Wellness in the Third Act,” this year’s festival features local authors Patricia Peters Martin, M.S., PhD and Helene De Montreux Houston, M.S. APRN, speaking about their book, “Well-Come to Retirement: Thriving in Your Third Act.”
Inspired by the real-life questions of clients in Martin’s practice – and the pair’s interactions with people they call “successful agers – “Well-Come to Retirement” offers the real-life stories of 40 retirees, presenting insight and information designed to help readers “create a third act filled with purpose and meaning, ” and is based on what the authors explain are the “eight dimensions of wellness.”
This keynote presentation, scheduled to take place at 10:45 a.m., is something Susan Fontaine, Baystate Loyalty Programs senior coordinator, said she hopes will offer attendees inspiration and actionable steps they can take to improve their own path to – or through – retirement.
“It won’t be just a power point presentation and hope your remember it kind of thing,” Fontaine told Reminder Publishing. “We have a lot of take-away materials for people, too, so they can continue to have information about the eight dimensions of wellness and a number of other things” once they leave the event.
The idea to focus this year’s festival around thriving in one’s third act came, Fontaine shared, when she met Houston at a prior event, and learned about her book. She and some colleagues reviewed “Well-Come to Retirement” and agreed the information was a “perfect fit” for the Senior Class audience.
Fontaine added that there would be a raffle for copies of “Well-Come to Retirement” at the event, and that books would also be available for purchase following the authors’ talk.
Attendees, she said, would also have an opportunity to learn more from Martin and Houston during a Q & A session with the authors, scheduled for noon during the event’s box lunch.
Also during – and following – lunch, festival attendees can take advantage of blood pressure and body mass screenings, and get their annual flu shot. Fontaine said the flu shot clinic is being sponsored by an area pharmacy, and that Medicare or private insurance should cover the cost of the shot for most attendees.
The Baystate Senior Class Autumn Festival is a reservation-only event, and free to Senior Class members, though Fountain said Baystate would waive the admission fee for individuals that join the senior class at the festival and that reservations would be accepted up to the day of the event, space permitting.
Doors open at 10 a.m. with coffee, tea and water available before the keynote address.
To register for the Sept. 14 Baystate Senior Class Autumn Festival, visit www.baystatehealth.org\senior-class or call 794-5200.