Senior Center News

Why join the Senior Center?

In 1978, the Chestnut Hill Community Association created a senior services center to provide a meeting place for senior adults of Chestnut Hill to join with old and new friends, taking educational classes and attending a variety of social activities. Nearly 30 years later, the Chestnut Hill Senior Center flourishes, attracting adults (from 40-somethings to nonagenarians) from this community as well as surrounding neighborhoods in Philadelphia and Montgomery counties.

Why not become a member of this great organization? Your membership entitles you to home delivery of our monthly calendar and newsletter; members-only luncheons; early notification of special programs and excursions; unlimited use of the members-only book and movie libraries; substantial savings on monthly trips and regularly scheduled classes; opportunities to provide a service to neighborhood organizations (Meals on Wheels, Atria) and far-flung groups such as People’s Emergency Center and the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York and New Jersey.

Annual dues support all of these programs and more, and make it possible for the Chestnut Hill Senior Center to reach out to the greater community with its daily craft and gift boutique, weekly lectures/ movies/book reviews, once-a-month free blood pressure screenings, and an information resource center (on housing, transportation, volunteer opportunities, drug prescription plans and similar topics). The Senior Center invites its own members and visitors to “try on” any new activity or class for free, then commit if the “fit” is right. This is the place to pick up a new language, art, literary, exercise or craft skill; and to share the ones you have with others.

The Chestnut Hill Senior Center is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. It is located at 7999 Crittenden Street, up the block from Market Square Shopping Center and Post Office; and can be reached by calling 215-248-0180.