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Lively Bodies, Lively Minds incorporates a comprehensive, integrated approach to socialization and exercise. Activities include Tai Chi in Strawberry Fields, swimming, line dancing, a walking club, trips to the theater, bingo, discussion groups, classes in painting, computers, gardening and flower-arranging, singing, creative writing, jewelry-making, bridge, seated exercise and yoga. The program also offers subsidized day trips in the metropolitan area and weekend visits to the Catskills, Poconos and Niagara Falls.
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Gardening for Life, based at the Woodstock Senior Center, meets twice each week. Under the guidance of a trained horticultural therapist, seniors learn how to grow flowers and plants, make hanging baskets and tabletop arrangements and maintain window boxes and exterior planters. Gardening for Life seniors select and grow plants for the Cabbage Patch in Times Square. In 2002, Project FIND inaugurated the Hamilton Gardening Club at the Hamilton Senior Center.
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Strength Training for Fun and Fitness is a weight training program for older adults. Numerous studies have shown that weight training can play a major role in helping seniors increase their flexibility and improve their balance, resulting in fewer falls and fewer injuries from falls when they do occur. Project FIND offers eight weight training classes each week at three of its senior centers. For more information about Fun/Fitness and a complete schedule, visit the FIND Out More page on this Web site.
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Special Events offer seniors opportunities to share holidays and other social activities:
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Our three annual Thanksgiving Day Dinner events provide more than 700 residents and members with a multi-course meal, live, dance music and a take-home bag with a turkey sandwich dinner and a gift. In addition, our volunteers deliver hot meals and gift bags to 300 homebound elders.
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The annual Halloween Masquerade Party includes a festive dinner with dancing to live music from two bands at a local hotel banquet room.
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Each August, Summerfest attracts some 200 seniors for dinner and dancing. In fact, in any given month, there is a party going on at a Project FIND location. Come join the fun.
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| The Homeless In-Reach Program (HIR) serves homeless seniors on a one-to-one basis. Securing housing for participants is the ultimate, but not the only, goal of the Program. HIR also helps participants gain benefits and entitlements, receive medical and psychiatric care, enter detoxification programs, and move inside to temporary shelters. At its most basic level, the Program offers compassion and a reliable human contact to people who often have lived an isolated existence for years. Homeless In-Reach is provided through the Coffeehouse and the Woodstock Senior Center, which offers participants the use of a handicapped-accessible shower room and a large selection of clean used clothing. Each year, the Program serves around 200 homeless seniors. |
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Day for Night provides homeless seniors and a limited number of elders who either lack cooking facilities or are too frail to shop and cook with a take-home meal in a bag. The program operates out of the Coffeehouse Senior Center four evenings each week. In 2002, Project FIND expanded Day for Night to include the Thursday Evening Dinner Program at the Coffeehouse. Although life does not stop at 5 p.m., most senior centers are not open at night, and many seniors who rely on the centers for meals, go hungry overnight. The Thursday Evening Dinner Program provides seniors with a hot meal and activity, such as karaoke singing, a movie or a discussion group, on site at the Coffeehouse.
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