Physical Fitness – Groove and Fit meets daily. Team members lead participants in a variety of exercises that work different muscle groups, balance, and strength.
Benefits: Physical fitness, socialization and fun!

Yoga/ Mindfulness – Every day before we venture out into our community we gather and bring ourselves into the moment to ensure fun healthy interactions within our community.
Benefits: This is a physical activity that promotes healthy blood flow, muscle movement, motor skills, and breathing. Participants also need to follow a set of directions.

Arts and Crafts – Participants use mediums such as pastels, charcoals, watercolors, and collage to create art and craft projects.
Benefits: Art has been proven to relive stress and put people in a calmer state. Crafting works motor skills with a focus on hand-eye coordination and sparks creativity, individuality and expression. Participants gain a feeling of accomplishment after creating something with their hands.

Scrapbooking – Participants create scrapbook pages using photographs taken at the center.
Benefits: By looking through photos, participants are reminded of activities that they have been involved in. Some participants may be experiencing memory loss and looking at photos helps them to recall the fun they have at the center. Scrapbooking promotes creativity and design. It is a social activity.

Bingo – Bingo is played on Tuesday and Friday afternoons. Participants play for an assortment of prizes.
Benefits: BINGO is a social game. Participants enjoy playing for prizes and it’s a way to encourage fun and laughter together. Bingo is also beneficial to hand and eye coordination, letter and number recognition and buidling independence and self confidence.

Crosswords/Puzzles – Participants give the answers to clues in order complete a crossword puzzle. Jigsaw puzzles are also available throughout the center.
Benefits: Crosswords and puzzles engage the brain and promote healthy aging.

Cooking Club – Cooking Club meets daily. Participants help prepare nutritionally balanced food items used for snacks, desserts, or to accompany lunch.
Benefits: Cooking Club encourages participants to follow a set of directions (recipe). Dicing, chopping, and assembling works motor skills. Allowing participants to be involved in the process of cooking gives many a sense of purpose and helps them feel like they are contributing to the program.

Gardening Club – Participants explore horticulture and nature topics.
Benefits: Participants engage in horticultural projects, which engage the senses and evoke memories. During the winter months, participants complete indoor activities such as fresh floral arrangements and bird feeders for the garden.

Social Competence – Participants engage in activities designed to build life-skills and give them tools to use while out in the community.

Social Circle – Participants meet for Social Circle multiple times a week and enjoy the conversations that take place during this club. The Courts Fitness & Enrichment program promotes socialization and the formation of new friendships.

Mindfulness Therapy – Participants gather together to complete breathing exercises that promote mindfulness, which can often evoke memories and feelings.

Karaoke – Participants enjoy singing a variety of karaoke songs after lunch.

Gaming – Participants meet in the Media Room to play games on the gaming system.

Benefits: Using the gaming to play games promotes the use of muscles and cognition, while participants have fun and laugh together.

 

Physical Fitness – Groove and Fit meets daily. Team members lead participants in a variety of exercises that work different muscle groups, balance, and strength.
Benefits: Physical fitness, socialization and fun!

Seated Stretching – Seated Stretching occurs daily before lunch. Participants are instructed to follow the stretches and motions of the staff member/volunteer who is leading the activity.
Benefits: This is a physical activity that promotes healthy blood flow, muscle movement, motor skills, and breathing. Participants also need to follow a set of directions.

 

 

Arts and Crafts – Participants use mediums such as pastels, charcoals, watercolors, and collage to create art and craft projects.
Benefits: Art has been proven to relive stress and put people in a calmer state. Crafting works motor skills with a focus on hand-eye coordination and sparks creativity, individuality and expression. Participants gain a feeling of accomplishment after creating something with their hands.

Scrapbooking – Participants create scrapbook pages using photographs taken at the center.
Benefits: By looking through photos, participants are reminded of activities that they have been involved in. Some participants may be experiencing memory loss and looking at photos helps them to recall the fun they have at the center. Scrapbooking promotes creativity and design. It is a social activity.

 

 

Bingo – Bingo is played on Tuesday and Friday afternoons. Participants play for an assortment of prizes.
Benefits: BINGO is a social game. There is no skill involved. Participants enjoy playing for prizes and it’s a way to encourage fun and laughter.

Crosswords/Puzzles – Participants give the answers to clues in order complete a crossword puzzle. Jigsaw puzzles are also available throughout the center.
Benefits: Crosswords and puzzles engage the brain and promote healthy aging.

 

 

Cooking Club – Cooking Club meets daily. Participants help prepare nutritionally balanced food items used for snacks, desserts, or to accompany lunch.
Benefits: Cooking Club encourages participants to follow a set of directions (recipe). Dicing, chopping, and assembling works motor skills. Allowing participants to be involved in the process of cooking gives many a sense of purpose and helps them feel like they are contributing to the program.

Gardening Club – Participants explore horticulture and nature topics.
Benefits: Participants engage in horticultural projects, which engage the senses and evoke memories. During the winter months, participants complete indoor activities such as fresh floral arrangements and bird feeders for the garden.

 

 

Social Competence – Participants engage in activities designed to build life-skills and give them tools to use while out in the community.

Social Circle – Participants meet for Social Circle multiple times a week and enjoy the conversations that take place during this club. The Courts Fitness & Enrichment program promotes socialization and the formation of new friendships.

Mindfulness Therapy – Participants gather together to complete breathing exercises that promote mindfulness, which can often evoke memories and feelings.

 

 

Karaoke – Participants enjoy singing a variety of karaoke songs after lunch.

Wii – Participants meet in the Media Room to play games on the Wii gaming system.
Benefits: Using the Wii to play games promotes the use of muscles and cognition, while participants have fun and laugh together.