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COVID-19 Updates

Senior Friendship Centers is safely and cautiously reopening our programs. Our Activity Centers, Center for Aging Studies, Adult Day Services, and some dining centers are now open. To find out more information or if you need meals, supplies, or services, please click here.

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GUEST COLUMN: Senior Friendship Centers tackle loneliness in Southwest Florida’s pandemic

For older adults, loneliness and despair are side effects of COVID-19. Carol Tapp of Sarasota lives alone and suffers from COPD, arthritis and fibromyalgia. As the pandemic raged on through the summer, Carol watched the food in her pantry slowly disappear, until she...

Senior Friendship Centers is reaching out to seniors who need meals

Senior Friendship Centers is working to identify seniors aged 60+ in Sarasota, DeSoto, Charlotte and Lee Counties who may be interested in receiving home-delivered meals. Nutrition is a year-round program at Senior Friendship Centers that consists of home-delivered...

Just What the Doctor Ordered

by Sandy Chase, SFC Volunteer Senior Friendship Centers is indebted to the medical and dental volunteers at the SFC Rubin Center for Healthy Aging (Sarasota) and Pat Buster Health Clinic (Venice). Supported by nurses, dental hygienists, pharmacists, administrative...