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| Since 1962 the Indianapolis Senior Center has been offering vital services to seniors and their families. Indianapolis Senior Center’s unique perspective, services, and caring outlook transform and reaffirm valued lives. The Indianapolis Senior Center’s ability to help seniors remain active, joyful, and engaged members of their community is crucial to the quality of life for current and future generations.
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Health and Wellness
The professionally staffed Life Strides Fitness Center co-designed by the National Institute for Fitness and Sport provides resistance-training and cardiovascular equipment. Age and ability-appropriate exercise programs are available for members. Over 100 seniors use the facility each day. The Life Strides Fitness Center promotes healthy living and improved physical conditioning. Currently, the Life Strides Fitness Center is open Monday, Thursday, and Friday - 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Mary Clegg, PTA, Manager). |
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Recreation and Leisure
The Indianapolis Senior Center provides our constituents many life-long learning experiences that serve to both mentally and physically stimulate individuals. Additionally, they provide an opportunity for meaningful work and the conduit to improve social support networks through vital social and emotional engagement.
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Lifelong Learning
We provide opportunities for older adults to set and achieve new goals in their lives through educational classes ranging from Art to Writing. Current studies show that a person’s natural curiosity for new information and knowledge may have a preventive effect for developing dementia in later life. Both visual and performing arts are taught. |
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Trips
Our trips are designed to entertain, educate, and for exploration. Trips are planned for all socioeconomic levels, which include culinary trips for lunch or extended overseas trips to exciting destinations such as Great Britain or Ireland and beyond. |
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Recreation
Recreational activities provide opportunities to meet new friends and establish a support network when many previous support networks become fragmented or nonexistent. Golf outings, special events, dances, parties, and other fun times are just a small sample of this vast collection of specialized programs. |
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Volunteerism
The structured volunteer groups within the senior center give older adults the opportunity to give back to the community and have meaningful work. Our volunteer projects have local and worldwide impact; handmade blankets went to Katrina victims, Iraq, and to local low-income Nursing Home residents. Dolls went to Riley Hospital for Children. |
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Health Education
Indiana’s Medicaid services pay nearly $2,700 per month for each nursing home resident unable to support the cost of care. The Indianapolis Senior Center’s health education services defray the costs of Medicaid in central Indiana. The Senior Center provides services, such as nutrition help options, health screenings, and health/nutrition education that delay and sometimes prevent the costs of institutionalized care. |
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Transportation
Indianapolis Senior Center supplies an excess of 40,000 basic needs trips per year for individuals 60 and over residing in Marion County. For seniors these transportation resources protect and promote independent living. Indianapolis Senior Center membership is not required for service. Call 317-263-6279 or www.seniortransportation.org for qualification requirements.
Please contact the Indianapolis Senior Center at 317-263-6272 for more information on all of our services! |
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