Our Story in Facts and Figures
1990
• 24 Oct 1990 – Blanka and Jan Lorman found civic association
• 1990-1991 – volunteers help organize social, trade and healthcare advice, activation etc.
• ŽIVOT 90 launches first project – Senior Days
• First Christmas Get-together, 23 Dec 1990
• Second Christmas Get-together, 25 Dec 1990
Club at Pařížská 4, Prague 1. First volunteer artists: Jan Kačer, Pavel Jurkovič and Josef Liesler. Venue fees paid by Olga Havlová Goodwill Committee.
1991
• Senior Telephone service launched as the first senior helpline
First "listening ear" Jiřina Saidlová, second ear lent by Blanka Lormanová
• ŽIVOT 90 takes over Jakubská and Letenská Pensioner's Clubs
• Voršilská, Senovážné Square, Liliová, U garáží a Františka Křížka clubs adopted
• ŽIVOT 90 opens reception desk in Letenská Seniors' Club
• Růženka Gröschlová becomes first receptionist
• First members filed
• Courses organized
• Volunteer team established
• Excursions organized and sold
1992
• First subsidy helps launch professionalization and social services, AERÍON Emergency care, Seniors' Phone Line, assistance service, Senior's Bazaar etc.
• Professional staff recruited
• Healthcare consultancy
• Social advertising
• Service for Seniors – TV program on ČT1, ČT2, OK3
• Seniors' Fair
• Seniors' Bazaars
• National Theatre fundraiser sponsored by Livia Klausová
• Christmas ride through Prague
• Membership of Britain's HELP AGE INTERNATIONAL
• Cooperation with volunteers from Nuremberg, Germany
1993 – 94
• Extended offer of social services
• Five centres around Prague
• ŽIVOT 90 branch offices open in Hradec Králové, Jihlava, Zruč nad Sázavou and Cheb
• Community Care Service
• Nursing Service
• "Senioři" News Bulletin
1995
• After much effort by Jan Lorman, the City of Prague entrusts ŽIVOT 90 with care for a dilapidated historical building at Karolíny Světlé, Prague 1, in the city centre. The organization was asked to overhaul the building and to implement the ŽIVOT 90 project of a "HOME OF ACTIVE AGEING." We planned to use inputs from Great Britain, Germany and Switzerland
• Building renamed in Latin as "PORTUS", meaning "PORT"
• Association moves in and starts to provide social services
1996 – 2005
• PORTUS House subjected to staged overhaul in 1996-2004
• 1996 – Václav Havel presents personal gift to ŽIVOT 90
• 1999 – first issue of Generace magazine published
• 1999 – ŽIVOT 90 organizes European seniors' conference EURAG
• 2001 – first annual Seniors' Mile run from Kampa to Žofín organized
• 2002 – Thousand-year water floods PORTUS House basements
• 2003 – Seniors' Helpline opens toll-free service on 800157157
• 2004 – PORTUS House reopens after general overhaul on 3 February
• PORTUS overhaul costs CZK 120 million
• 2004 – new services provided in overhauled PORTUS House
• 2005-2007 – Internet for Seniors
• 2005 – Fifteen-year-old successful history of Seniors' Days crowned by last annual event in Prague's Žofín 
• 2005 – ŽIVOT 90'S AREÍON Emergency Helpline awarded Czech Ministry of Health's Makropoulos Prize
• 2006 – ŽIVOT 90 joins international appeal for increasing awareness about violence against seniors, issued by INPEA (International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse)
• 1990-2006 – struggle for new bill on social services, eventually passed as Law 108/2006 Coll. As the founder and pioneer of the Czech Emergency Helpline, ŽIVOT 90 makes a successful bid to incorporate the service into Law 108/2006 Coll. on social services in the category of Community Care Services. This enables users to pay monthly instalments from his/her legal contribution to service.
2008
• 2008 – ŽIVOT 90 holds Seniors – Our Chance? Conference in Prague's Liechtenstein Palace
• 2009 - ŽIVOT 90 holds a European Conference on the Care and Protection of Elderly People in Prague within the framework of Czech EU presidency
