Older Adults

Colorado Senior Connections - A NORC Program

Colorado Senior Connections enhances the physical and emotional well-being of elderly apartment residents by providing wellness, recreational, social, physical, and mental health services, as well as resources to outside community agencies. Through this program, seniors continue to grow and learn, remain independent, and enhance their quality of life by making new friends and creating a sense of community.

Colorado Senior Connections is the first program of its kind in Colorado. The program is currently being offered at Berkshires at Lowry, Sheridan Glen, and Edgewater Plaza. Our program manager creates programs based on the needs of seniors in your community, which include:

• Information and referral • Recreational and educational activities
• Social connection • Help finding and obtaining services
• A wellness clinic • Stay Safe Scholarships for home repair
• Support groups • Health education and exercise classes

Colorado Senior Connections is a program in partnership with the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado’s Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORC) “Aging in Place” initiative. Jewish Family Service is the lead agency. Our partners are the Dominican Sisters Home Health Agency, Berkshires at Lowry and Brothers Redevelopment Inc. Senior Connections was made possible by the US Administration On Aging (AOA), an agency in the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Daniels Fund. On the national level, United Jewish Communities is the lead coordinating organization for NORCs. More information is available at www.norcs.org.

Information: Alison Joucovsky, (303) 597.5000 x376, ajoucovsky@jewishfamilyservice.org