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Santa Clara Senior Center

The Santa Clara Senior Center offers a variety of ongoing recreational activities to anyone age fifty and older. There is a coffee/snack bar in the lobby, along with comfortable chairs, game tables and a fireplace. The auditorium/multipurpose room seats up to 300. The Center also has a full-service, commercial-grade kitchen. Activities include woodshop, lapidary, cards, billiards, bingo, painting and dances. Classes are also offered through Adult Education in sessions that last approximately ten weeks at a time, and can include aerobics, ballroom dance, ceramics, creative arts, painting, Senior theater, Zumba, and western line dance. Services on-site include specialized workshops, a nurse, case manager, notary, health insurance/medicare representative, legal assistance and a nutrition meal program. The Senior Center also sells transit passes for seniors and the disabled (BART and bus tickets).

The Senior Center has a Computer Lab with fourteen computers. A 3,000 square-foot fitness area has thirty-eight pieces of commercial-quality exercise equipment on a rubberized floor, and the 7,000 square-foot natatorium (indoor pool area) features a lap pool, a warm water pool and a spa. The Santa Clara Senior Center is the first senior center in the Bay Area to have indoor pools, locker rooms and individual showers.

Residents who are fifty years or older can use the Center at no charge; they may bring a guest for an additional fee. Individuals eighteen years and up who have a qualifying disability/permanent medical condition may also participate in the open use Fitness/Aquatics Program (ID Fit Program) held at the Senior Center.

The Senior Tour program, Adventures to Go, offers day, overnight, and extended trips to a variety of places within the area and out of the area. It is one of the most extensive tour programs in the Bay Area.