As mentioned on our homepage, the Department of Elderly Services provides a comprehensive community focal point on aging to meet the needs of the older residents of the city, where many of our opportunities are created for people to come together for a variety of services and activities. The department provides those services and activities at the West Haven Senior Center, 201 Noble St., on a daily basis.

Specifically, those activities are based on the practice of recreational therapy/therapeutic recreation through the facilitation of the senior center’s director, a certified therapeutic recreation specialist through NCTRC and departmental staff.

The senior center programs and facilitates the following activities, including but not limited to:

Cognitive

• Arts and Crafts
• Bingo
• Board Bored — Updated Monthly
• Brain Fitness
• Card Games
• Creative Arts
• Dance Programming: Line Dancing, Zumba
• Dominoes
• Pokeno

Physical

• Exercise: Chair Exercise, NamaSTAY in My Seat: Chair Yoga
• Parks and Recreation Workout Sessions

Social-Emotional

• Morning Coffee Socialization
• Senior Companions
• Daily Lunch Program
• Discussion Groups
• Support Groups

Spiritual

• Interdenominational Prayers
• Interdenominational Discussion Groups