Community Edition

For independent-living and life-plan communitiesEdited by William Kohn · Aventura, Florida

For Lifestyle Directors

The Library

Every program we have made, newest first: 65 ready-to-run packets and growing every week, plus a growing collection of Art Projects. Each one is a set of printable, fillable PDFs: type in your community's name, date and place, then print.

How it works (5-minute video)

AI-narrated overview · free to watch, no sign-in

Browse free. Download with a subscription.

  • Anyone can browse every title, date and description.
  • Subscribing communities download every PDF in the Library, included.
  • Not a subscriber? Buy one package: a Passport Week or a Theme Week for $99, or any Coffee and a Country, a Story or a Topic for $30. You get a ZIP of fillable PDFs.
  • Special Reports, Table Talk cards and Art Projects are for subscribers.
  • Each month a subscription includes one Passport Week or Theme Week; extra ones are $99 each.

One-time-use license for one program at one community. Download link valid 60 days from purchase.

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3 Special Reports and growing. In-depth explainers on decisions residents actually face, each with a short video and printable materials. About one a month.

Latest

AI illustration

  • October 1, 2026
  • Subscribers

Stay Steady. Stay Independent.

Fall prevention in one place: a 1-minute captioned video, a 6-page checklist, a Lifestyle Sheet for wellness teams and a fillable group-viewing poster with a QR code to the video.

See all Special Reports (3) →

6 Passport Weeks and growing. A full theme week built around one country: a Coffee and a Country visit, a matching story and topic, posters, screens and table talk. Your community picks up to one a month.

Latest

  • Available now
  • $99 or included with a subscription

Passport Week · Italy

Seven days of Italian food, music, art, bocce and conversation: the evening walk, a comic classic by Luigi Pirandello, and two Coffee and a Topic sessions.

See all Passport Weeks (6) →

4 Theme Weeks and growing. Like a Passport Week, but built around a theme instead of a country: a lead-up week of art, trivia, films and conversation that ends in one big themed night. Each comes with a kit, run of show, menus, handouts, posters and screens, plus a matching Coffee and a Topic.

Latest

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7 Coffee and a Country packets and growing. A 45-minute hosted visit to one country: host guide, large-print reader set, poster and screen announcements.

Latest

AI illustration

  • October 21, 2026
  • $30 or included with a subscription

Germany

A 45-minute hosted visit to one country: host guide, large-print reader set, poster and screen announcements.

See all Coffee and a Country (7) →

10 Coffee and a Story packets and growing. A 45-minute discussion of a great short story: host guide, reader set, the full story in large print, poster and screen announcements.

Latest

See all Coffee and a Story (10) →

18 Coffee and a Topic packets and growing. A 45-minute hosted conversation on one rich topic: host guide, reader set, poster and screen announcements.

Latest

See all Coffee and a Topic (18) →

A growing collection. Hosted art sessions from our Passport Weeks, each with step-by-step instructions and a supplies list. Subscribers can choose any of them, at any time. More are coming.

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7 tips and growing. Short, step-by-step help with phones, tablets and computers, three times a week. Each tip has a page to read, and a printable poster with a QR code (a square code you scan with a phone camera) that opens it.

Latest

  • Phones and computers
  • Subscribers

That “virus” warning is a fake

A pop-up that says your computer is infected and to call a number is a scam, not a real scan. How to close it on a Windows computer, a Mac, an iPhone or an Android phone, and what to do if you already called.

See all Tech Tips (7) →

10 sets of Table Talk cards and growing. Seven fold-and-stand table tents a week for the dining room or lounge, each with a short story and one good question.

Latest

See all Table Talk (10) →

Art marked “AI illustration” was made with AI for The World Desk; it is not a photograph. Stories are public-domain classics or World Desk originals, as each packet notes.

Edited by William Kohn, who lives in a life-plan community himself.