Bay Area Older Adults Promotes Accessibility for All

BAO's One-of-a-Kind Multisensory Educational Nature Walks

Approximately one in three adults age 60+ has some form of vision loss either by birth or from disease. BAO's multisensory program is the only multisensory program in the United States and was designed for a mix of older adults who were born blind and those who lost their sight due to diseases such as age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy (visually impaired persons).
The program includes

Passenger van transportation to parks and gardens
A healthy and social lunch including bottled water
Four mobility-trained guides, two with first-aid training
Four-sensed wildlife interpretation: hearing the sounds of the watersheds and wildlife, and smelling, touching and even tasting the plant life

June 8, 2024 BAO's visually impaired clients are honored at Llagas Bridge ribbon cutting ceremony
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July 31, 2024 BAO is invited speaker at Coyote Valley public access improvement project
Hear Dr. Anne Ferguson, BAO's Executive Director, on KCBS radio

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