What are the Adventure Club principles?

Adventure Clubs are small, member-organized groups of seniors, caregivers, and supporters who share responsibility for creating safe, social, and engaging experiences.

What are the Adventure Club principles?

• Consensus driven decision making: decisions should be acceptable to everyone. We recommend at least one member be familiar with the freely available “Consensus Handbook” for describing the decision making process

• Shared Responsibility: all members accept some responsibility for the health of an Adventure Club.

What are the Adventure Club values?

• Dignity: all members and all people are to be treated with respect

• Equality: all members and all people are to be treated as equals

What is the Adventure Club’s “shared responsibility model”?

Ultimately, each adventure club decides exactly what this means - but it is a requirement that all members participate. This might mean any of the following:

• leading an adventure with participating seniors (i.e. total, undivided attention)

• contributing cash to hire a caretaker for Adventure Club meetups

• hosting a weekly in-home meetup with slightly lighter supervision (i.e. availability and presence)

• any other form of participation agreed upon by the given Adventure Club

Why start another senior focused program?

That is a great question. Stating this positively we (initially Colin Johnson and Susan Johnson) wanted a program that:

• facilitates inclusion of all seniors, including those with early-stage Alzheimer’s

• offered a shared-responsibility model that provides some caregiver respite (at times, Colin felt overwhelmed by caretaking needs)