Thanks to the nonprofit Baker Senior Center in Naples, five seniors are getting a new lease on life after Hurricane Ian wiped theirs away. 83-year-old Marie Powell has spent her life holding her family together and letting her grandkids play office in her home. “I have to tell you, the best grandkids anybody could ask …
Seniors with damaged homes from Hurricane Ian will soon have new manufactured homes, thanks the Baker Senior Center Naples and funding from Collier Community Foundation. Rose Marie Powell is grateful her life is getting closer to normal after Hurricane Ian ripped through Southwest Florida. The 83-year-old who has lived in the Moorhead Manor mobile home …
The Baker Senior Center Naples has finally opened a new building that has been in the works for five years. “It’s bright, it’s big, it’s so spacious,” said Grace Chen, a fitness instructor at the center. “The building itself is 30,000 square feet,” said Dr. Jaclynn Faffer, CEO of the Baker Senior Center Naples. “We …
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A new year brings a new location and a new name for a popular center for seniors in Collier County. Employees and volunteers debuted the Baker Senior Center Naples with a soft launch Jan. 4 at its new location, 6200 Autumn Oaks Lane, which provides the program with its own permanent home and ability to …
Dear Members & Volunteers – The opening of the new Naples Senior Center has been delayed. Our last scheduled day of programming at Castello Drive is Friday December 30, 2022. There is no available Senior Center programming January 2-6, 2023. We are targeting Monday January 9, 2023 as our first day at the new location. …
Naples turns 100 years next December 2023, and in honor of the occasion we kicked off the Centennial in momentous ways. Throughout 2023, a series of commemorative events will honor the historic growth of the community leading up to its 100th anniversary on December 1, 2023. Celebration Beach Church and Baker Senior Center Naples began …
Seniors in Southwest Florida are facing their own specific challenges after Hurricane Ian. Many are on fixed incomes, living alone with no family in the area and disabled and now they have flooded homes or no home at all. WINK News talked to the Naples Senior Center CEO about the specific trauma these seniors are …
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Naples Senior Center, a nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive programs and social services for seniors, announced that it has received $1.4 million from the Florida Department of Elder Affairs. The funds are earmarked for the organization’s new permanent home, which is currently being built in North Naples. Construction began on the 30,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art building in …
The David Lawrence Center says there are about 20,000 people with Alzheimer’s in Southwest Florida, a disease that affects not only the person living with it but those around them. Alzheimer’s is a disease that gradually causes people to lose their memory. It’s a hard reality for caregivers who have to watch their loved ones …
As rent prices skyrocket, two organizations are helping some of the most vulnerable people in our community find a home. The Hunger and Homeless Coalition of Collier County said in the first quarter of this year, there were 65 seniors without a home, and that number is growing. “We’ve had maybe 10 to 12 a …