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Engaging Activities that Inspire Joy!

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Reigniting Joy for Participants!
Peace of Mind and More Time for Care Partners!

Why Thoughtful Engagement® – Social Connectedness

Quality of life can be elusive for a person who cannot or chooses not to readily participate in day-to-day activities, whether a solo ager, one who has lost a loved one, or one who has a disease, disability, or special need. When social opportunities shrink, loneliness can often times follow, and the risks for deteriorating health conditions and increased care demands heighten.

Our research and experience tells us no matter what social and physical changes happen during one’s lifetime everyone deserves continued joy to sustain their sense of dignity, independence, and quality of life. This is where Thoughtful Engagement® comes into play.


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Mary-Ellen Kramer

Thoughtful Engagement Specialist,
The Aging Space

Where caring
meets planning

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What is Thoughtful Engagement® – Joy-Producing Social Enrichment

Thoughtful Engagement’s personalized, one-on-one, joy-producing activity program is designed to provide social enrichment, personal connection, and ample amounts of fun regardless of health condition. In its uniqueness, the Program: 

  • Goes beyond traditional companionship activities to marry individual interests with joy-producing outcomes.
  • Explores activities based on what one can do and where one wants to do them, always playing to one’s strengths.
  • Can be delivered wherever one calls “home” which can be a private residence, senior community, group home, rehabilitation center, or long-term care facility. 
  • Is exclusively a social program where the search for and delivery of enrichment opportunities remain on-going without distraction.

The Thoughtful Engagement Specialist® – Your “Joy” Facilitator

The Thoughtful Engagement® Specialist is a positive, personable, compassionate, caring, curious, and patient person who becomes the participant’s activity explorer, creator, and joy-producing partner.

Through a deep social history exploration, the Specialist interviews the participant, and other care partners if important, to help illuminate the interests and activities that have brought joy to them throughout a lifetime. The Specialist then creativity devises an Engagement Plan where the activities and life-joys beautifully align, and the engagement experiences come to life with intention.

FORMER PARTICIPANTS UNCOVERED NEEDS JOY ACHIEVED
She loves gardening. Succulent garden materials were brought to her room, where she calls home, so she could create her garden. It morphed into ongoing community showings.
He loves birding (especially identifying them). A downloaded “Bird Call and Identification” phone application generated enthusiasm to regularly go outside and listen to simulated bird calls so he could identify them.
He is a lover and driver of Chevy sports cars, also a tinkerer. A visit to a 2024 Chevy dealership unveiled the new Corvettes, to his delight, and the Bolt electric car, the first he’d ever seen.
He is a lover of music, and former DJ. A visit to a vintage record store was a multi-sensory, industry evolution experience for him.
She loved teaching at an elementary school. A personal tour of a local elementary school brought her back to another memorable and honorable home

The Benefits of Thoughtful Engagement® – They are Universal


Our Thoughtful Engagement® program nurtures, inspires, and continuously explores the activities that bring joy at every point along life’s journey.

For Participants…

  • A sustained sense of dignity, optimized independence, and a grander quality of life are achieved.
  • A joy-producing partner stands-in to engage in experiences that they love when they are no longer able to do them or are unfamiliar with doing them alone.
  • An abundance of joyful outcomes come to be celebrated.

For Care Partners…

  • A peace of mind and a welcomed opening to schedules, typically committed to a participant’s care, are achieved.
  • On-going updates of a participant’s well-being are provided through another valuable touchpoint.
  • Open communication is facilitated and extraordinary service is committed to and delivered upon as part of a brand promise.
  • Joys are celebrated together as “family.”

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Thoughtful Engagement® is a national network of Specialists trained to develop personalized, one-on-one, creative activities that reignite joy in the lives of its participants. The Aging Space is the exclusive provider of Thoughtful Engagement activities in Worcester and Middlesex Counties.

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