Bangkok Golden Years Seniors

To mark the start of 2026, our first Coffee Hop will be at Ryoku Cafe in Phrom Phong.

This stylish café offers a delightful urban retreat for coffee lovers, dessert enthusiasts, and anyone seeking a quiet moment of calm in the city.

As with all our Coffee Hops, this is a relaxed and social gathering. Come along to enjoy good conversation, a cosy atmosphere, and great company as we ease into the new year together.

We look forward to welcoming you to our very first Coffee Hop of 2026.

Location : 28 Sukhumvit 35 Alley, Khlong Tan Nuea.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZLZbDC952vwo9GTf9
Getting there: BTS Phrom Phong 10 min walk

Pay as you go

Two presentations, both concerning with emotional health, one highlights nurturing our inner child to serve us in our older years, the other provides hotline support for suicide prevention.

Dr. Lanny Snodgrass: Senior Staff Military Psychiatrist and Forensic Psychiatric Consultant. will speak on Keeping Your Inner Child Young. Our mindset is an essential prerequisite for how we approach each day and how receptive we are to experience a challenge, something new. Chance favors the prepared mind. Keeping your inner child involved and alert will make the stages of aging work for you.

Samaritans in Thailand: A talk by Khun Trakarn.
The core of Samaritan's work is a suicide pevention helpline, operating 12 - 10pm. They believe that offering people the opportunity to be heard in confidence and accepted without prejudice can alleviate despair and make emotional health a mainstream issue. The English hotline in Thailand is 02-713-6791.

Location: BNH Hospital, 3/F, Conference Room
Time: 1:00 pm gather for 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Fee: 100 THB

The session will open with Dusty sharing her journey of creating research-backed aging well practices and growing them into a community-based leadership program through local hospital collaboration that has gone on to serve hospital policy for vulnerable populations. The 8-week Circle of Friendship Aging Well Healthspan Program is built on the four-room model, viewing each person as one house with four rooms—physical, mental, emotional, and social-spiritual—and is enacted through five core practices:

1. Breathing, meditation, positive mindset, and stress reduction.
2. Laughter for joy, movement, and connection.
3. Rhythm and brain engagement through learning and play.
4. Movement, including dance or chair yoga for all abilities.
5. Knowledge sharing, where participants teach and learn from one another.

Dusty will present a sampling of these activities in a lively, interactive format, demonstrating how the practices work and how they can be adapted and increased in difficulty to improve skill sets and better support each participant’s own healthspan. This session will wrap up with a discussion reflecting on key takeaways and practical ways to integrate these or other suitable practices into daily life. All levels of ability are welcome. Please dress comfortably for movement.

Location: Sea Junction Rm 407, 4/F BACC , BTS National Stadium
Time: 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Fee: 150 THB pay at the door

Seats are limited, so should you be unable to attend for personal reasons, please have the courtesy to update your RSVP so those on the waiting list can be moved up.