Iowa City Senior Center January-February 2026 Program Guide

LEARNING SPANISH

Estate Planning Basics Thursday, Jan 15, 11 am - 12 pm Location: Room 302 Register online or call 319-356-5220 Presenter: Jill Watskey, Attorney

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Let's Practice Spanish Together Sundays, 2-3:30 pm Location: Room 309 Volunteer Host: Alex Hurley Join University of Iowa student volunteers to improve your Spanish language skills in a friendly and supportive environment. All levels and abilities are welcome—come learn, practice, and have fun! Intermediate Conversational Spanish Tuesdays, 1-2 pm Location: Room 308 Register online or call 319-356-5220 Facilitator: William Heald In this group, we try to master the grammatical and vocabulary skills necessary to read and converse in Spanish. Membership required. Reading Spanish Texts in Spanish Tuesdays, 2-3 pm Location: Room 309 Register online or call 319-356-5220 Facilitator: William Heald This group read, translate, and discuss intermed. level Spanish texts from Spanish authors. Use It, Don't Lose It! Spanish Convers. Wednesdays, 9:30-10:30 am Location: Zoom Register online or call 319-356-5220 Instructor: Jessica Ortiz Let's practice your Spanish with a native speaker. This conversation group for intermediate-to advanced levels will have a different topic and vocabulary each week. Membership required.

We will discuss the different ways your assets can pass to your loved ones when you die. Specifically, we will cover documents like the Revocable Living Trust and Last Will and Testament. We will also discuss options such as joint ownership and payable-on-death (POD) beneficiary designations. Each of these options have pros and cons, and we will talk about those in detail. We will also spend time discussing which option might be best given a person's particular asset situation and wishes. Membership required.

Long-Term Care Planning Thursday, Jan 22, 11 am - 12 pm Location: Room 302 Register online or call 319-356-5220 Presenter: Jill Watskey, Attorney

LIFELONG LEARNING

There are various options for paying for long-term care: private pay, long-term-care insurance, Medicaid, and VA benefits. While Medicare sometimes pays the costs of long-term care for a while, it never pays for an extended nursing home stay. Medicaid is the program that pays for long-term care, but it can be confusing, especially if you’re in the middle of a health crisis or caring for someone who is. We’ll talk about how quali fying for Medicaid works for people who are married and single. Specifically we will discuss the division of assets, the options for spending down assets, the five year look-back period for making gifts, and the exceptions to the gifting rules. Membership required. An Intersection of the Arts & Aging Well Co-presented with TRAIL of Johnson County Friday, Jan 30, 1-2 pm Location: Room 302 Register online or call 319-356-5220 Tim Charles, author of memoir Aging Life Design: A Journey Captured in Morning Pages , is a Cedar Rapids resident with over 47 years of experience in the health care industry, and 40 years in senior leadership. He retired in 2022 as Mercy Medical Center (Cedar Rapids) President and CEO. Among other activities in retirement he has become an avid painter and the founder and president of his own company, Aging Life Design, Inc. His presentation on the importance of the arts as we age includes examples of his own artwork and will be followed by a Q&A session.

Iowa's Native Bees Tuesday, Feb 24, 2-3 pm Location: Room 302

Register online or call 319-356-5220 Presenter: Johnson County Conservation

Quick, name a bee! Honeybee? Bumblebee? When we think of bees, we may forget that thousands of species exist, and 400 of them live in Iowa. In this program led by a Johnson County Conservation Naturalist, we'll learn more about the incredible diversity of these cool creatures and how to create backyard habitat for them. Membership required.

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