Clovis Senior Activity Center providing welcoming space

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- At the Clovis Senior Activity Center disconnected 3rd Street, members of the installation cheque successful to instrumentality antithetic kinds of classes.

From fittingness to art, and adjacent playing billiards, determination is an enactment for everyone.

"It truly is astir getting retired there, being unneurotic and learning thing new," says Senior Services Supervisor Ashlee Winslow.

The caller installation opened successful November 2023.

The extremity is to springiness adults implicit 50 a spot to bask an progressive lifestyle.

Winslow says they service hundreds of radical each day.

"I deliberation our mean regular attendance is 650+ radical each day," she said. "It's conscionable truly breathtaking to spot each this movement."

The CDC reports that astir 1 successful 3 adults successful the U.S. feels lonely.

Health experts accidental societal isolation tin summation the hazard of depression, anxiousness and adjacent dementia.

Deborah Pepin teaches creation classes astatine the elder center.

"I deliberation it's bully for them," she said. "It keeps their caput active. It gives them thing to look guardant to, thing to do."

She says the installation is besides a large spot to signifier friendships.

"For me, it's astir connections, whether they past a infinitesimal oregon a lifetime," Pepin said. "It's a transportation with idiosyncratic other that you're not alone."

The Clovis Senior Activity Center besides offers escaped lunches for older adults.

Denise Benelli has been volunteering with the installation for 2 years, and has been a subordinate present for four.

"I moved to Clovis six years ago," she said. "I was looking for a venue oregon thing to bash and get to cognize people."

Since becoming a volunteer, Denise has gotten to cognize adjacent much people.

For older adults who are feeling lonely, the Clovis Senior Activity Center says it is simply a abstraction wherever you tin belong.

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