Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Senior center

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The result was keep. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:41, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Senior center

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Merge with Assisted living and this page a redirect there. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 00:22, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 00:22, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. A senior center mostly serves people who are capable of living on their own, which is the opposite of assisted living. http://www.stlambertseniors.ca/english/ is a good example. Moving to Wiktionary would be another option, but I think a lot could be written about senior centers. See this book, for example: https://books.google.com/books?id=hBseBQAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y Weil, Joyce. The New Neighborhood Senior Center : Redefining Social and Service Roles for the Baby Boom Generation. ISBN 978-0-8135-6296-4. OCLC 1125189680. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 01:59, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Senior centers usually provide an open place for older folks to gather in a community, along with food (be it just a lunch, or coffee and refreshments while playing board or card games) and entertainment (including trips to other cities for events such as baseball and football games, plays or musicals, gambling, or outdoor recreation). The nominator's rationale is spare and curt, and suggests they didn't do any research into what a senior center is. This is 100% fixable. Nate • (chatter) 03:44, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - There's not really an argument being made to delete here, and the suggested merge would not be appropriate, as senior centers are not the same as assisted living facilities. While the current article is a stub, there are plenty of legitimate sources discussing senior centers, such as the example mentioned by Eastmain already. Rorshacma (talk) 03:47, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above. --Vaco98 (talk) 04:18, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It's different than assisted living and although the article is a stub, it is still notable. GoldMiner24 (talk) 06:59, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Not only are senior centers in no way related to assisted living centers, senior centers are usually available at little to no cost for seniors in the community who are generally independent and wish to have social connections and activities. Assisted living centers, by contrast, are apartments for rent that provide extra services for seniors who cannot live completely independently, such as cooking, housecleaning, and nursing services. Not sure that the original nominator has any familiarity with the subject. Eauhomme (talk) 16:28, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose At least in the US a "senior center" is a community building often run by the city, aimed at providing interaction, recreation and enrichment to people classed as "seniors". They are recreation centers, not residences. Assisted living is a catchall for a wide system of levels of living arrangements that are congregate and provide various levels of assistance. There are also senior residences that do not provide assistance, and some residents of both assisted and non-assisted have their own activities centers, which in some cases may be open to people beyond the residents. They are clearly different things, even if at times there is a senior center within an asissted living facility.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:21, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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