Resources

Click here to visit the official Thrive55+ Active Living Center website.

Enhanced Benefits Checkup Counseling is BACK!!

Senior Resources Enhanced Benefits Checkup Coordinator, Lori Napolitano will be taking appointments here at Groton Senior Center twice a month on Tuesdays the following dates:

  • Screenings are appropriate for those seeking State/Federal Program assistance as well as Medicare Counseling.
  • Clients can be scheduled regardless of where they live in CT.  If an appointment is not available at the town they reside, clients will can schedule at another location.
  • Clients must come prepared for their appointment. Failure to come prepared impacts the client negatively.

Call 860-441-6785 to schedule.

TRANSPORTATION

As a rider on the Thrive 55+ transportation, the center provides a low cost ride to medical appointments and shopping for recommended $2 donation.

Transportation Information page

 

 

 

 

    Volunteers of 2020

    Posted on January 3, 2021 by Groton

    Pictured in the paper copy of the newsletter are just a few of our fabulous volunteers who have continued helping out behind the scenes while our center has been closed to the public during the pandemic. Boy, 2020– what a year!

    Yet, these amazing persons helped us through it! Our volunteers have been so dedicated and enthusiastic about keeping day to day things at the center running smoothly and also helping with community projects. Volunteers weekly handed out Community First Dinners, distributed hundreds of food boxes on several occasions, passed out daily grab and go lunches, tended our GSC garden beds and prepped them for the winter. They also called for our 2020 outdoor bingo, helped at our special luncheons and decorated the center for the holidays.

    During these trying times it’s special folks like these that help us to maintain a sense of normalcy for all of our friends that visit the center. We couldn’t do all we do without you! THANK YOU!

    FROM THE DESK OF MARY JO RILEY

    Posted on January 3, 2021 by Groton

    Oh wow, its January! We all can’t believe it has been almost a year since we have seen many of you. Staff has been actively planning and sometimes re-planning programs to keep you all active and engaged while social distancing and staying safe. We have become the gurus of the virtual world. One project that has begun is a look at rebranding and possibly renaming the senior center. This is not just done lightly. We have researched users and nonusers of the senior center about why they do or don’t utilize our programs and services. Surprisingly, many nonusers don’t really know what the center has to offer or even that they are eligible to come. Due to so many misconceptions about what our senior center is or what we offer, the rebranding goal is to bring more people to the center and encourage using the programs and services. As this project progresses and as we hope the Covid 19 vaccines roll out more, we look forward to seeing you all back at the center in 2021.

    Change – Content by Judy

    Posted on December 3, 2020 by Groton

    Change is defined as – the act of making or becoming different. This whole COVID situation certainly has made our entire lives different in a multitude of ways. From how we stay safe, interact, work and even make purchases evolves constantly.

    2020 has been the all-time master of change whether we wanted it or not! Who would have ever dreamed we would be wearing masks? In 2019 we didn’t even know what social distancing was. Also, in 2019 just what could of possibly have been meant by “mandatory stay at home”?? Or that children would no longer go to school?

    Even if someone had told you that they were going to make all of this into a movie, most of us would have said it’s all too crazy and no one will ever go see that!

    For us New England Patriots fans the biggest 2020 news should have been Tom Brady leaving!! Instead local and high school sports almost doesn’t exist. Fans can’t go to games.  We don’t know from week to week which school is opened, and which are closed.

    COVID has changed our world forever. Whether we wanted it or not! Life will never go back to what it was.

    Now is the time we should be thinking about how we want our individual lives to be as we move past 2020.

    What do you want your 2022 to look like? What have you been dreaming about? What did you miss the most? What did you get robbed of in 2020? My husband and I were not able to celebrate our 50th Anniversary the way we had been planning for the last three years. We were going to have a huge party with all of the bells and whistles followed by a three-week vacation to Vancouver, a cruise to San Francisco and then onto Las Vegas.

    So now is the time to start planning to live the life you want. Use the present to get healthier. Find new paths to travel. Start saving, even if it’s only $5.00 a week.

    Don’t be afraid to reach out. Talk to your doctor, your friends, your family. Find a therapist.  Tell them how hard 2020 has been for you.

    Embrace change! No matter what it will look like.

    Figure out new ways to socialize. I’m doing a Zoom Paint Night where the instructor will be online, and attendees can be in person in small groups or on Zoom. A network I’m part of is planning a Zoom night where we will learn how to make a couple of drinks.

    Start work on your “2020 Bucket List”. Start making the actual plan on how you will achieve those goals. Hit the ground running. Be ready  to live.

    Now start planning your 2022 so you will know what it’s going to look like!!

    TECHNOLOGY CENTER: OCTOBER 27–DECEMBER 21

    Posted on November 30, 2020 by Groton

    At this time, the TECHNOLOGY CENTER is limited to 9 people per room..

    Due to safety precautions, we are asking that any Tech Center services be only one on one appointments until further notice. To meet with Wally, Dick and Joe please call 860-445-1057 to schedule.
    * Face masks will be required to be worn properly while in the Tech Center.
    * 6 feet social distancing is observed.
    * Joe will still offer Monday morning iPad help.
    * Wally and Dick volunteer most weekday mornings.
    * No Tech Talk during the Fall 2 session.
    * Wii Bowling will not be taking place this session as anything that has persons sharing “supplies” (cards, game)

    WE WEDNESDAYS virtual program meets weekly Wednesdays 10:00 am – 10:30 am virtually through the ZOOM app so that we may socialize with you while safe distancing.

    We keep it casual with one staff member and just allow for everyone to have a chance to say hello, chat about current events, check in on one another and hear GSC updates.
    The ZOOM meeting ID is 705 601 3648 no password is required just the ID or the link

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7056013648. You can also email or call us for the link. 🙂