Services

The M. Monica Eggert Senior Center houses a state-of-the-art, central kitchen preparing 91,000 meals a year for distribution to Café locations and Meals on Wheels recipients throughout the 190-square-mile, 9-Town Estuary Region. A made-to-order breakfast is served 7:45 – 9:00 a.m. Monday through Friday, and Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon in Old Saybrook. An evening meal, often with entertainment, is held seasonally, in Old Saybrook.

The transportation department coordinates, schedules, and dispatches several hundred rides a week for the senior and disabled. EMOTS (out of the area medical transportation) provides rides to medical appointments. Vans are wheelchair accessible and two cars are available for transporting, as well. Educational and cultural trips to museums, parks, concerts, theatre and music destinations are scheduled throughout the year.

The Senior Center has a staff benefits counselor, meeting room space for preventative health screens and programs, and an exercise classroom for Senior Fitness, weight training, chair exercise, T'ai Chi and Yoga classes, as well as, ping pong. A 12- workstation computer lab with all levels of educational classes, DSL internet connection, and laser printer is available. The Senior Center, also has billiards, cards, a theatre troupe, creative writers’ class, bingo, gardening, Wii bowling, as well as, craft and art classes. We are always open to new opportunities for fun and friendship, and to try something new. AARP Tax Assistance and Mature Drivers Classes are held here. Notary public services are available.

Please click on the links that drop down from the Services button on the home page, for additional information on these, and other programs and services.