Felton Institute

Felton Institute has been working to eliminate isolation and loneliness in San Francisco since its inception as a community social service agency 130 years ago. Felton offers culturally and linguistically appropriate programs and services that foster community and social connections among socially isolated, low income older adults, including those living with serious mental illness and those residing in local long-term care facilities. Examples include workforce programs for older adults; the foster grandparent program; and the senior companion program which includes friendly visiting, senior counseling, and peer escort services. This session will highlight lessons learned from these successful programs as well as how they have led to the development of new initiatives focused on conducting outreach, providing trauma-informed services, offering wellness classes, and organizing meaningful activities including a choir, intergenerational gardening, arts and dance classes, and cultural exchange opportunities to isolated older adults living in poverty in San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley.

Magnetic field measurement protocols were developed to support an assessment of lineworker exposure to AC and DC magnetic field characteristics during the performance of transmission and distribution live-line maintenance tasks. Measurement parameters included field intensity, frequency content, polarization, orientation, temporal variability, and the vector relationships between the Earth's static field and the AC power system field. Specifically for the lineworker monitoring study, the site measurement protocols were designed to answer the following questions: (1) What are the magnetic flux density characteristics that lineworkers are exposed to which are not captured by personal exposure (PE) measurements? (2) What are the magnetic flux density characteristics that must be incorporated into analytical exposure models? (3) How valid are conclusions about PE measurements when results are reported in terms of broadband values?. >