Senior Centers offer all kinds of activites right in most people's local neighborhood. In fact, neighbor Senior Center is a great asset in keep retiring people in their home and neighborhood. What are the activites senior centers offer?
Senior Center Activities
Activites are the main service offered by senior centers. Activites let people do things they like, with people they like. Sounds like a winning combination doesn't it.
I served on the activities committee of my local senior center and got the inside scoop on what was going on. Here are some of the most popular activities offered at a senior center.
Bocce Games - I played bocce with men and women about three times a week for two years and just loved it. You really get to know the other players and they become your friends. It is an easy game to play but also very interesting.
Evening Dinner with Entertainment - Once a month the senior center would have a theme dinner and provide the meat and senior would bring a side dish. We had entertainment like a ventriloquist, a magician, barber shop quartet, a singer, etc and loved it.
Park Place Pacer Walking Group - We met at the senior center at 8am 2 or 3 times a week and walking a 1.2 mile loop around the park, three time. That's a pretty good walk. You walk and talk, so you get some really close friends that way too. Plus when you walk and talk, the time goes by fast. They expect you to show up, so it's motivating and you don't miss many times.
Day Trips - About once a month we would take a day trip from the senior center. We toured downtown and a historic Oakland Cemetery. We went to two different museums. One of my fondest trips was North Georgia winery tours.
Those are some that I did but of course there were many more acitivites like card games, line dancing, Tai Chi, and fantsey football and many others.
Senior Games - I went to several local senior games with other center plus 5 others. This was a competition, which we found real interesting because two of my activities, bocce and walking had competitions. This prompted me to learn race walking and I went on to the State Senior Games and then to the National Senior Games.
Most senior centers these days are modern centers of adult activities and offer much more than they did in the past. The best advice to just to visit one and ask for their activities calendar. Pick a couple of activities out and give it a try. I think most people will be glad they did.
