Rethinking Aging Club on Clubhouse History
Updated March 2025; December 2024; November 2023; May 2023.
We reported Clubhouse feature updates through 2023. Clubhouse has continued to make changes, we hope for their survival. Their audio recordings are still excellent and we will continue to host our live podcast episodes there where we can have a live audience interacting through their chat feature.
This page gives you a historic perspective on the Rethinking Aging Club that Linda Sherman founded on Clubhouse.
How to RSVP and join a live episode recording.
Rethinking Aging Club on Clubhouse is now a House with 3,500 members. We have a unique niche as the only community on Clubhouse specifically focused on sharing information to foster awareness and improve products, services, education and advocacy to benefit older adults and their caregivers. We offer a comfortable space, like sitting in a living room with friends to share and receive. Our “replays” can be used like podcasts to listen to on your drive. NOW you can listen to our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and others.
Rethinking Aging Club house hosts two regular live shows or “rooms” a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Tuesdays is News for the Ages held 6 – 7pm eastern time.
News for the Ages by Rethinking Aging Club podcast episodes page:
Thursdays our Rethinking Aging Club Podcast live recording is still sometimes referred to as the Age-Friendly Product Alliance with a different topic and panel of expert speakers each week 2-3 pm eastern time during daylight savings time and 1 – 2pm eastern time during standard time.
Rethinking Aging Club Podcast episode page
The History and Mission of the Age-Friendly Product Alliance – Now the Rethinking Aging Club Podcast
Mission: Share resources, learn together, raise awareness of needs and encourage creation of products, services, education and advocacy that better the lives of older adults. This continuing Thursday Clubhouse room was founded by Michael Philips (AARP Tech), Rick Robinson (AgeTech Collaborative from AARP) and Stephen Ewell (Consumer Technology Association Foundation) and has been hosted by the Rethinking Aging Club, founded by Linda Sherman, since June 2021. The initial room was called Products for 50+. It evolved into an Alliance at the beginning of 2022. Debbie Howard (caregiving advocate, market research, and Japan AgeTech expert) became a core planning and organizing member of the Rethinking Aging Club in November 2021. We thank Benjamin Surmi (Koelsch Communities) for his strong continuing support. Keren Etkin (TheGerontechnologist.com) and Frances West (accessibility expert) were central members in the early days and we are grateful to them.
We are of course grateful to all of our speakers and supportive audience members. Thank you for continuing to contribute information and spread the word.
Rethinking Aging Club Podcast Live Recordings with Audience Interaction also Referred to on Clubhouse as Age-Friendly Product Alliance Weekly Thursday 1-2pm ET Standard time / 2-3 pm ET DST Rooms
There is a different topic weekly:
Our topics focus on the aging population and those who care for them including: Film, Authors, Project Updates, Dementia/Alzheimer’s, Sleep Health, Ending Well, Fitness, Nutrition, Physical Therapy / Occupational Therapy, Fall Prevention, Marketing/PR, Digital Inclusion, Digital Skills Training, Robotics, VR, FinTech, Community Building, Employee Caregiver Support, Product Design, Human Centered Design, Self-care for older adults and caregivers, Smart Home, Senior Living Alternatives, Fall Prevention, Product Onboarding, Robotics, Brain Health, Hearing Tech, Vision Tech and Care, Nursing Shortage Crisis and what to do about it. We are also planning rooms focusing on sexual health and dental care for older adults.
Prior to November 11, 2021 there were no replays. Click the red button here for our recorded Thursday shows list with topics, speakers and links.
Rethinking Aging Club Testimonials
We have provided a few shows prior to launching our podcasts in August 2024 as articles here:
Entertainment and Edutainment Streaming Film and Rethinking Aging
Tutorial Creation, Training, and AgeTech Product Adoption
Caregiver Resources November 4, 2021 Rethinking Aging Discussion
News for the Ages by Rethinking Aging Club Recorded with a Live Audience Tuesdays 6pm – 7pm Eastern
Learn more here:
Introduction to News for the Ages
Weekly News for the Ages Podcast Archives from August 2023
Our Typical Audience and Who Should Join Rethinking Aging Club Discussions
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- Assisted living, home health, long term care, private practice professionals serving older adults
- Gerontology researchers
- Investors interested in the aging marketplace
- AgeTech, Robotics and Aging Ecospace Services entrepreneurs
- Film and Streaming Series creators
- Architects and Interior renovators for Aging in Place
- Dementia and Alzheimer’s specialists
- Chair yoga, breath work and other movement for older adult trainers
- Digital Skills Training for older adults trainers
- Marketing Experts with an interest in marketing to 50+ and those who support them
- Physical therapists, occupational therapists, wound care experts
- Biotech, Pharma, Integrative medicine professionals
- Funeral industry disruptors
- Financial planning and fintech tools related to the aging ecospace
- Advocates to better conditions for older adults
- Boomers helping create a better future for themselves
We get both an engaged live audience and a significant number of replays on and off the app. There are currently over 3,500 plus Rethinking Aging Club Members.
How to Join Clubhouse and the Rethinking Aging Club House
Click here from your phone to download the mobile app if you are not yet a member. Our Rethinking Aging Club House page gives you easy access to all of our replays (which date back to when replays started in November 2021). If you are already a member, you can easily find us by searching “Rethinking Aging Club” or click here.
For most of the history of our house, you needed to apply to join. As Clubhouse modified their platform, that became challenging for what we want to offer but you can be assured we eject people from our house if they do anything to make our community members uncomfortable.
How to RSVP for a Clubhouse Event (Show / Room)
Simplified here: How to RSVP and join a live episode recording.
Go to the house. The events are at the top of the page. Hit Remind me to RSVP.
You can now choose “Add to Calendar” to add in your time zone.
How to Find and Join our Clubhouse Events / Show / Room
Simplified here: How to RSVP and join a live episode recording.
Go back to where you RSVP’d for the event. For Rethinking Aging Club we open the room 5 minutes before the official start. If you are a scheduled speaker, one of the hosts will send you an invitation to come on stage. It will pop up on your Clubhouse page. Just click “accept” and you will be brought on stage. You are automatically brought up muted. From the stage, our co-hosts will ask each of speakers to unmute and test their mike.
If you are in the audience you need not be concerned about muting yourself. You cannot be heard. However you can communicate with the group through the “chat”. The chat gets saved with the Clubhouse Replay. We read comments and questions into the audio recording so they will usually be saved in the podcast recording as well.
The Clubhouse “replay” available in our house cannot be edited but we can edit the recording before publishing it as a podcast.
Finding Clubhouse Houses to Join
I wrote a Rethinking Aging on Clubhouse article with recommended Clubs and Rooms, as well as background and Clubhouse features for startup founders and others in the aging ecospace in July 2021. I updated the list in spring 2023 as I wrote this Overview in October 2022. I am no longer updating the recommending houses.
Recommended House Categories include Startups; News; Caregiving, Dementia and End of Life; Ageism; Genetics and Rare Diseases; Consumer Oriented Clubs for Women with something to tie them to our topics; Large Healthcare Clubs with Multiple Leaders and Topics; Science; Wellness Architecture and Interior Design; Marketing.
To determine if a Club is currently active before joining it, check the number of rooms per week. If it says “less than 1/week” and there are no recent replays on the page, it is not active.
Clubhouse Tools and Features
New User Onboarding events (July 2024 – there used to be) every Wednesday 6pm PT, replays on the New User Onboarding Club Page. Hosts includes the Paul, the co-founder. I have asked if they do this any more and waiting for a reply.
Clubhouse TownHall with updates on Clubhouse direction, recommended events and Q&A. Hosts once included co-founders both Paul and Rohan. Were every Tuesday 5pm – 5:45pm PT. Now (July 2024) they are held the at the same time first Tuesday of the months led by Paul and Joe in the Clubhouse HQ house. They also post audio with transcript product updates on the Clubhouse HQ page.
FEATURE UPDATES November 2023:
In September Clubhouse added asynchronous chat and became more dependent on voice. “Live Rooms” which Rethinking Aging Club hosts twice a week are still happening.
In 2025 they appear to be going back more to “live” rooms and backing away from asynchronous chats.
At some point here Clubhouse got rid of Clubhouse Clips. I was sorry to lose them but at least now I can make clips using my podcast host BuzzSprout. I wrote this tutorial for How to Save and Share Clubhouse Clips with some examples from Rethinking Aging Club shows. I had to un-categorize it from our “how to” category since it would just be confusing now. In 2025 they mentioned possibly bringing them back.
UPDATE 5-11-23:
Clubhouse now has Houses (in beta for quite some time with Jan 2023 announcement they would be merged with Clubs in spring 2023), Pinned Links, optional Captions, Replays, Share, Web access for viewing, Chat. I’ve explained a bit of each in my July 2021 what is Clubhouse article in the update section at the bottom.
April 11th – April 17th 2023 Clubhouse converted all remaining Clubs to Houses. Rethinking Aging Club became a house on April 8th.