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The path a person chooses during his or her life to direct or re-direct their life's work and accomplishments. Career opportunities provide compensation in a variety of ways including personal reward, benefits and compensation

Education and training resources on aging for caregivers, particularly those providing personal care to older adults on a daily basis.

Emotional support and guidance for families, partners and other caregivers who are coping with the challenges of providing care for another adult.

Community Centers with Senior Activities offer a wide variety of programs and services, including: Meal and nutrition programs, Information and assistance, Health, fitness, and wellness programs, Transportation services, Public benefits counseling, Employment assistance, Volunteer and civic engagement opportunities Social and recreational activities.

Computer classes help people best understand how to use computer software and hardware as well as teaching computer programing basics. Many modern jobs require the ability to use a computer including software the creates documents, presentations and spread sheets. Computer classes help you learn these skills.

Continuing education generally refers to any post-secondary learning or programs that adults pursue after formal education. This can vary from seminars or one-time classes to online courses and entire degree programs.

Establishments catering to Seniors Dining and Entertainment options

The process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.

Training and placement for senior oriented employment

Senior groups that identify themselves as "faith-based" means they have some association with a certain religion.

A farmers' market is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers. Farmers' markets may be indoors or outdoors and typically consist of booths, tables or stands where farmers sell their produce, live animals and plants, and sometimes prepared foods and beverages

A garden club is an organized group of people with a shared interest in gardening, gardens, and plants. A flower club is a similar group with a focus on flowers.

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, or enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature, as an ideal setting for social or solitary human life. The single feature identifying even the wildest wild garden is control.

A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are easily accessible for use and not just for display purposes. It is responsible for housing updated information in order to meet the user's needs on a daily basis

Lifelong learning is the "ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated" pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. Therefore, it not only enhances social inclusion, active citizenship, and personal development

Memory preservation is for those who wish to record their memories in digital form for their loved ones. Pictures, videos, voices, sounds and texts can be stored and cataloged using different selection criteria

A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary.

A Personal Historian documents a personal history about yourself or another individual and breaks it into small, manageable pieces and then reconstructs it into a complete, publishable document

Activities geared towards Seniors

A senior center is a type of community center where older adults can congregate to fulfill many of their social, physical, emotional, and intellectual needs. In the United States, many towns have senior centers that are usually locally funded, though some may receive state and federal money.

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.