What's new with Senior Services?

The Fall Activity Guide is now available. Pick up a copy at the Senior Center!
August 1, 2023

Special Events

Looking for Artists for the Older Adult Artist
Showcase

If you are a local recreational/amateur artist age 55 or older, you can display your 2-D original artwork at the Lafayette Senior Center in September.
Artists contact Dana.hoffman@lafayetteco.gov for entries and information. Applications are due by August 23.

The entire community will be invited to enjoy these pieces on display at the Lafayette Senior Center during open hours.

Activities

Lafayette Book Clubs

Discover the joy of book clubs at the Senior Center! Gather with fellow enthusiasts monthly on Fridays to discuss a preselected book. Don't worry if you haven't finished reading it - you're welcome to join us anyway!

Mystery Book Club

"Bluebird, Bluebird" - Attica Locke

Aug. 4 | 10-11am
Second Friday Book Club

"Hell of a Book" - Jason Mott
Aug. 11 | 10-11am

Email OlderAdults@lafayetteco.gov for more information.

Card Program

Brighten the day of seniors in our community through the Senior Card program. This outreach initiative has been quietly connecting and engaging with seniors for years. Whether for celebrations, sorrows, or to let someone know they're thought of, we send cards to bring smiles and warmth.

We would love to hear from you. Please send requests to OlderAdults@lafayetteco.gov and join us in spreading joy and kindness.

Card Games

Join us for laughter and enjoyment playing Mexican Train or other card games with others.

Mexican Train, Shanghai Rummy, Bridge, and other card games - Thursdays | 1-4pm
Pinochle - Mondays | 9-11:30am
Shanghai Rummy - Mondays and Thursdays | 1-3pm
NEW! Rummikub - Fridays |1-3pm

Computer Lab

Are you in need of a computer? Visit the Senior Center, where a public computer is available for checking emails, researching information, or improving your technical skills. The Computer lab is open on a first-come-first-served basis.

Crafters for Charity

Share your time and talents to make a difference in our community! Join us in knitting, crocheting, stitching, or creating heartfelt items that:

brighten the day of a cancer patient
bring warmth to a youngster
assist local charities

We welcome new individuals, fresh ideas, and discovering new ways to contribute and support our community together.

Wednesdays | 1-3pm

Lap Robes

Join our compassionate team of volunteers crafting small lap-size quilts for donation to nursing facilities and other agencies. Whether you're a skilled sewer or not, there are various ways to contribute—ironing, cutting, tying, or delivering items. Your support makes a meaningful impact in bringing comfort and warmth to those in need.

Second Thursday of the month | 10am-noon. Please call 303-665-9052 for specific dates.

Mats for Homeless

We need people organizing and cutting grocery bags to make plastic yarn, "plarn" and assist with crocheting the mats (bring your hooks, size P or bigger). You can also donate plastic grocery bags to the Senior Center for this project. Once finished, mats are donated to Sister Carmen and the Lafayette Police Department.

Friday, Aug. 4 | 1-4pm

Monday Morning Glories

Join us on Monday mornings for friendship and coffee. Grab your free cup of coffee and Panera Bread treat from inside the Senior Center, then head to the picnic table to start the week. We will meet inside if the weather does not cooperate.

Mondays | 10am

Panera Bread - Sponsored by Cultivate

Stop by every Monday and Wednesday at 9am to pick up Panera Bread at the Senior Center. Donations vary weekly.

Mondays and Wednesdays | 9am

Puzzle Checkout Program

Puzzles are available for checkout at the Senior Center.

Tech Tuesday

Do you have a question about how to use your cell phone? Do you want to learn how to send photos or make your photos into an album? How about increasing the font size on your device to read more easily? Answer all these questions and more at Tech Tuesdays, held at the Senior Center and hosted by Peak to Peak High School's Interact Club.

Second and fourth Tuesdays | 3:30-4:30pm

Whatever

Catch up with our friends and make new ones while working on "whatever" craft you have. Bring your materials or use ours and join the fun. Email OlderAdults@lafayetteco.gov if you would like to be part of the Whatevers group.

Wednesdays | 9-10:30am

Enrichment

Making at the Library: Iron on Transfer

Unleash your creativity at the Lafayette Library's Maker Space, a true treasure trove of possibilities! Explore a different project each month and bring your imagination to life. Don't forget to check ahead for any additional supplies you may need. Join Senior Services staff and library professionals (who will provide help) for a delightful journey of making and crafting.

Aug. 17 | 1-3pm | Lafayette Library | Free

Register through WebTrac

Wellness

Medical Foot Care

The Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) provides medical foot care on the third Wednesday monthly. Services include toenail trimming, callus filing, overall foot health checks, and blood pressure checks. The VNA handles all scheduling and payments.

Medical foot care may be a benefit of your Kaiser plan. Credit cards are preferred, but checks are accepted.

Aug. 16 | $55 Medical foot care / $15 fingernails
Appointment required. Call VNA at 303-698-6496 to schedule an appointment.

Ortho Bionomy® Bodywork

Ortho-Bionomy® is a therapeutic technique that relieves pain by helping the body rediscover its natural balance. This method of osteopath-based bodywork includes working with structure, lymph, fluids, neurology, organs, and the endocrine system, allowing the body to relax while opening neurological pathways that assist with and speed up the healing process. Laura Samel, a practitioner, provides 45-minute sessions.

Location: Lafayette Senior Center
Aug. 14 | 10am-2:45pm
$40 Residents / $48 Nonresidents
Appointment required. Call 303-665-9052 to schedule

Lions Club Glasses

The Senior Center is proud to partner with our local Lions Club to offer FREE sunglasses and reading glasses to seniors in need. The Lafayette Lions Club accepts donations of prescription glasses that individuals in our community no longer need. Often, the Lions Club also gives reading glasses and sunglasses they cannot donate overseas.
Aug. 4 | 11:30am- 12:30pm | Free

Hearing Clinic

Family Hearing is back to provide free audiology services such as having ears checked and cleaned, hearing aids inspected and cleaned, and hearing screenings.

Aug. 15 | 1-2:30pm | Appointment required. Please call 303-665-9052

Fitness

Register by emailing staff at OlderAdults@lafayetteco.gov, calling 303-665-9052, or using the links below.

SilverSneakers® Classic

Have fun moving to music, and performing exercises focused on strengthening muscles and increasing the range of movement for daily life activities. Participants can use handheld weights, elastic tubing with handles, and a SilverSneakers ball for additional resistance. A chair is used for sitting-down exercises and standing support. Exercises can be modified to accommodate fitness levels.

Location: Bob L. Burger Recreation Center gym
Mondays | 12:15-1:15pm
Thursdays | 8-9am
Thursdays | 9:30-10:30am

Fridays | 8-9am

View online class schedule (PDF)

SilverSneakers® Stability

If you want to improve your balance and strength, this class is for you! Movements taught in class focus on improving strength and power in the ankle, knee, and hip joints while improving reaction time. This class is suitable for nearly every fitness level.

Location: Lafayette Senior Center
Tuesdays | 10-10:45am

View online class schedule (PDF)

SilverSneakers® Chair Yoga

Experience yoga-based postures and stretches all from the comfort of a chair. Engage in mindful and meditative flexibility exercises to help your recovery, mobility, posture, and energy!

Location: Lafayette Recreation Center
Thursdays | 11am-noon

Young at Heart Tai Chi Flow

An aerobic fusion of Tai Chi, Taekwondo, and Chair Yoga. Expect to move gently and flow dynamically for a full mind-body workout.

Location: Bob L. Burger Recreation Center Fitness Studio
Tuesdays | 11am-noon

Seated Stretch

Perform Seated Stretch from the comfort of a chair; no need to worry about getting up and down from the floor! Mindful, meditative, and flexible exercises to help your recovery, mobility, posture, and energy!

Location: Lafayette Senior Center
Thursdays | 10-10:45am

Seated Tai Chi

Often described as meditation in motion, seated Tai Chi promotes serenity through gentle, flowing movements. It helps older adults get the health and wellness benefits of Tai Chi without the risk of falling. Tai Chi also improves flexibility, immune system, sleep, happiness, sense of self-worth, strength, cardiovascular endurance, and concentration

Location: Lafayette Senior Center
Fridays | 10:05-10:50am

LaBlast® Chair Fitness - New Thursday Class

LaBlast® Chair Fitness is a dance fitness program done 100% seated. No partner is needed (except for your chair!); LaBlast® is based on all the dances you see on "Dancing with the Stars"- Disco, Jive, Foxtrot, Waltz, and more. Learn the actual dance skill while blasting calories to the music of all genres and seriously having a blast!

Location: Lafayette Senior Center
Tuesdays and Thursdays | 9-9:45am
Silversneakers® pass holders - Free
Drop-in fee $4

Trips and Tours

Register by emailing staff at OlderAdults@lafayetteco.gov, calling 303-665-9052, or using the links below.

Boulder County Area on Aging

Boulder County Area Agency Age Well Series

The Age Well Series is a unique opportunity to broaden and add depth to your understanding of aging and realize the growing scale and importance of our regional network of advocates, researchers, innovators, and practitioners.
More series information

Diabetes Education and Support

This group, facilitated by a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Diabetes Educator, is for Boulder County adults 60 and older with a diabetes diagnosis or those caring for someone with a diabetes diagnosis. Registration is required, but there is no cost to attend.

Register by emailing InfoHealthyAging@bouldercounty.org or calling 303-678-6115 and leaving a message with your contact information.

Aging Mastery Program for Caregivers

This program, open to caregivers and non-caregivers, combines goal setting, daily practices, and peer support to help participants make meaningful changes.

This six-week program is fun, innovative, and interactive. It empowers you to spend more time doing good things for yourself and others daily. Caregivers help a relative or friend with chores, errands, personal care, and more.

Questions? Email InfoHealthyAging@bouldercounty.org or call 303-441-4583.

Medicare Basics Classes and Counseling

The Medicare Counseling program offers live, virtual Medicare Basics classes throughout the month at varying times. Courses provide unbiased, up-to-date information about Medicare enrollment, benefits, costs, what and how Medicare pays, choices under Medicare plans, how they work, and prescription drug coverage.

Visit Medicare Counseling - Boulder County for the most up-to-date schedule of classes.

Fresh Conversations - Virtual

Fresh Conversations is an evidence-based nutrition education program focused on timely nutrition topics presented monthly. Patti Murphy, RDN, a registered dietitian in Boulder, leads Fresh Conversations.

For questions or to register, please email InfoHealthyAging@bouldercounty.org or call 303-441-4995.

Free Nutrition Counseling

A registered dietitian nutritionist can help you with various concerns, from mindful eating to digestive disorders and gut health. Call the counseling number, and a dietitian will then contact you.

English counseling: 303-678-6115

Spanish counseling: 720-930-0223

Rainbow Elders LGBTQ+ Teatime - Virtual

The Boulder County Area Agency on Aging coordinates Teatime. To access Teatime virtually through Zoom, use this link: Access Virtual Teatime.

Contact Michael Chifalo at mchifalo@bouldercounty.org or 303-441-4518 for more information.

Community Resources

Coal Creek Café and Meals on Wheels

Could you or someone you know benefit from Coal Creek Meals on Wheels (CCMOW)?

CCMOW offers the following programs to provide community members with daily, hot, nutritious meals and related support services:

Meal Delivery Program mobilizes volunteers to deliver delicious made-from-scratch meals to clients Monday-Friday, plus two frozen meals for the weekend.

Coal Creek Café, located at the Josephine Commons Housing Development, serves meals Monday-Friday from 11:30am-12:30pm. This program creates opportunities for guests to socialize with friends and neighbors while enjoying our delicious daily offerings.

Plates for Pets clients receive pet food (for their cats, dogs, fish, birds, and rodents) and meal delivery on the last Monday of each month.

Project Homecoming clients receive five free home-delivered meals after returning from a hospital stay, regardless of their age and income.

For more information about CCMOW's programs and program costs or to sign up to receive meals, please visit coalcreekmow.org, call (303) 665-0566, or apply: https://www.coalcreekmow.org/meal-application

Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) – Broadband Service for Low-Income Households

Spread the news! The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has collaborated with broadband service providers across the U.S. to subsidize internet access for low-income households under Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). Any household that is below 200% of the Federal Poverty Line or has a member of the household that receives government benefits such as SNAP, Medicaid, SSI, WIC, Pell Grant, or Free and Reduced-Price Lunch is eligible for:

Up to a $30/month discount on your internet service
Up to a $75/month discount if your household is on qualifying tribal lands
A one-time discount of up to $100 for a laptop, tablet, or desktop computer (with a co-payment of more than $10 but less than $50)
A low-cost service plan that may be fully covered through the ACP (Comcast, CenturyLink/Lumen, and most cell phone carriers have fully covered plans)

There is an application to confirm qualification. Here is a direct link that provides an online and printable application. How to Apply - ACP - Universal Service Administrative Company (affordableconnectivity.gov)

Front Range Aging Solo Network

This resource and education group aims to connect solo agers, provide a supportive environment, and offer learning opportunities to members.

Second Mondays | 4pm

Email AmandaMeier@trucare.org to be added to the invitation list or join the private Facebook group.

Colorado Low-income Energy Assistance

The Colorado Low-income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP) is a federally funded program that helps eligible hard-working Colorado families, seniors, and individuals pay a portion of their winter home heating costs. LEAP aims to help bring warmth, comfort, and safety to your home and family by assisting with heating costs.

Applications are accepted from Nov.1 to April 30.

For more information, visit the Colorado Department of Human Services at www.colorado.gov/cdhs/leap or call 1-866-HEAT HELP (1-866-432-8435)

Generation Exchange

Generation Exchange provides accessible technology help for older adults through virtual one-on-one technology workshops.

Learn more about Generation Exchange to get your questions answered with one-to-one support.

Ride Free Lafayette

Free, on-demand, door-to-door bus service connects you to places within the City of Lafayette. Riders can book a ride by phone, online, or via the On-Demand Transit: Rider app. A bus will arrive at a pick-up location at a designated time.

Schedule your trip and learn more on the Ride Free Lafayette webpage.

Mobility For All

Want to feel more confident using smartphone apps that help you get around? Call 720-564-2218 for details. Mobility for All collaborates with community partners throughout Boulder County to offer transportation-related technology workshops. These workshops help community members of all ages and abilities feel more comfortable using transportation apps such as Google Maps, Transit App, Lyft, Uber, and RTD Mobile Tickets.

Find virtual Mobility for All workshops here.

Cultivate Carry-out Caravan

This program connects community members with older adults who face the challenge of securing reliable grocery access. Friendly volunteers provide caring assistance throughout the ordering, purchasing, and delivering of groceries from their partner, King Soopers, straight to older adults' homes.

Clients are responsible for paying for their groceries with a credit or debit card, but volunteer-powered shopping and delivery are free.

YardBusters
This program also connects seniors in Boulder County facing the challenge of maintaining their yards during the Spring, Summer, and Fall months with volunteers to assist with basic yard cleanup.

Fix-It
Cultivate’s Fix-It program connects volunteers to Boulder County seniors facing the challenge of maintaining their homes. Volunteers can perform home repairs, wheelchair/walker repairs, and grab bar installations.

If you want to know more about the services Cultivate provides or volunteer for them, please call 303-443-1933 or visit www.cultivate.ngo.

Home Hazmat Pick-Up

Do you have unwanted household hazardous materials like paints, batteries, and pesticides in your home but can’t get them to a proper disposal facility because of transportation challenges? If so, let Boulder County’s Home HazMat Pickup pilot program help. Staff will stop by your home to collect and transport this waste for proper disposal.

Hazardous Materials Management Facility accepts hazardous wastes from residents of Boulder County, the City and County of Broomfield, and the Town of Erie. Call or email to schedule your home pickup at hazmatall@bouldercounty.org or at 720-564-2225.

Alzheimer's Association - Dementia Caregiver Support Groups

Support groups are for family or friends who have a loved one with dementia. Groups are facilitated by the Alzheimer's Associations' screened, trained, and supervised volunteers.

To find a Support Group that fits your schedule, visit Alzheimer's Association Support Groups or call 800-272-3900.

Loan Closet Checkouts:

You can check out equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers, knee scooters, canes, crutches, transfer benches, shower seats, and temporary ramps.

Check out essential mobility equipment by calling 303-665-9052 or emailing OlderAdults@lafayetteco.gov.

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The Lafayette Senior Center is located at 103 S. Iowa Ave, Lafayette, 80026