If you had a magic wand and could make your city, town, or neighborhood desirable, productive, resilient, transcendent, what would it look like and how would it feel? What is a good place for children, for work, for shopping, for health, for fun, for aging?

Remember when Zoom conjured up a zip code:  Oh two ONE three FOUR sung brightly on a PBS television program?

Today Zoom virtual meetings convene samaritans who share ways to connect zip codes to critical services that may be lacking due to COVID19.

We field user questions on how unemployment and Social Security payments from the government can interact with one another and provide brief guidance on the recent unemployment adjustments related to COVID-19.

Dr. Alexandre Kalache, the longevity expert who pioneered the concept of age-friendly cities and communities at the World Health Organization, uses personal stories to give texture to the themes found in his more than four-decade-long work in the field of population aging. Here he is from quarantine at his home in Copacabana, Brazil.

The staff answers questions for the 50+ job-seeker on returning to work, résumé gaps, and how persistent to be after interviews.