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Independent and Growing
Greetings from the Executive Director Christopher Nadeau
 We are proud to be sending you this Annual Report and update on Park Slope Geriatric Day Center’s developing programs. During the past year we have increased our services by adding a monthly Caregiver Support Group, another day of programming for The Lotus Club, a Memory Technology Center, new partnerships, and a renewed focus on providing evidence-based, comprehensive dementia care to families throughout Brooklyn..... read full article |
Program Activities - “This is a really good program!”
 Ola Hightower loves word games. In 2006 she joined the Lotus Club, PSGDC’s wellness program for adults of any age with Early Memory Loss. “I didn’t know what to expect at first,” she says, “but now I look forward to it. I was spending too much time alone at home. This is a really good program!” Ola is a retired professor, having taught for many years at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn..... read full article
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Partners Enhance Center Activities
 Forming relationships with schools, organizations, and professionals makes a big difference in everything we do. PSGDC is lucky to be located next to PS 124, and our connection with the teachers leads to intergenerational fun. Elementary classes come to the center for holidays and special programs. The children come prepared to entertain, and PSGDC members love to chat wducational workshops offered by
the Alzheimer’s Association and walked in the Association’s annual
Memory Walk. Through these connections they learned about PSGDC’s
programs..... read full article
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Our Mission is to help older people with mental, or emotional limitations
to maintain and/or improve their level of functioning so they can enjoy their later years.
We believe that human beings, regardless of age or degree of impairment, can benefit from
continuing to participate in the life of a community where they are accepted andhave opportunities
to experience a sense of purpose and success.
Our members are not pressured to
be anyone they are not,and they are encouraged to be everything they can.