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Senior Center Experience Essay

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I woke up earlier than usual due to I needed to spend two hours in commuting from Long Island to Bronx. Today was rainy day. I didn’t feel exciting for my first day of clinical due to I have gone to Social Adult Day Care Center many times due to my job. Today I went to JASA Mechler Hall Senior Center at 2158 Watson Ave, Bronx, NY10472 This place is very neat and clean. There have TV, kitchen, water machine and so on. Also the director, Ms. Larance is a very nice and heart-warming old lady. In addition, the senior people there are very nice too. There are welcome to talk. In this senior center, every senior need to pay five dollars each month for member fee. Also they need to pay $1.50 for lunch if they want to have lunch there. The lunch for today is oven fried chicken, collard Greens with smoke Turkey, rice and peas and milk. This senior center has AA support group on Wednesday every week. There are a lot of people attending this support group. One of this group members states, “I have drunk for 20 years so that I try to quit the alcohol.” Also, there is an insurance company, Metroplus Insurance that comes to help senior apply for medical insurance. It is very convenient for senior to have a medical insurance. Today I met a lady who complains about paying high copay and the premium for Medicare. I …show more content…

They provide a meeting place for seniors to socialize with friends, participate in arts and cultural programs, exercise and learn about healthy living, and celebrate life events. An old lady talked me that she meets, and talk with her friends in the morning every day. Also, she plays games with her friends twice per week. However, the inadequateness is not too much people to participate in the exercise. Also, most of seniors don’t want to speak out for their benefit; for example, taking away the coffee machine. I always speak out for my benefit so that they call me “big

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