Services for Older Adults at BPL offers inclusive programming and services tailored to our patrons over the age of 50, including lectures, films, performances and educational programs that reflect the wide interests of today’s older adults.
Multi-session art workshops for patrons ages 50 and older, led by a professional teaching artist.
Learn how to bowl virtually using a Microsoft Xbox One, and then compete against each other during fun monthly tournaments.
Classes at every branch that connect older adults to the world of technology.
OSOS is an ongoing oral history project exploring Brooklyn from the words of its residents.
More Services from BPL
We supply reading and viewing materials to older adults in nursing homes, senior centers and adult day-care centers. Materials include books in English and other languages (some in large print), DVDs and audiobooks. Books-to-Go Application
This fast, convenient service provides books, audiobooks and videos to people who are homebound or have a visual disability. Books by Mail Application
We offer monthly teleconference and online courses for those who are homebound or living in senior residences or nursing homes. Call 877.819.9147 or register online to sign up through our partner at DOROT University Without Walls.
We reach beyond the Library to visit street fairs, senior residences, nursing homes, hospice care and more. Throughout Brooklyn, we host cultural programs, speakers and presenters at senior sites.
Events & Classes
Contact Us
We are available to help connect older adults, their families and caregivers to high-quality resources available in Brooklyn and beyond. If you are in search of information on health care, housing, education, veterans services and more, call 718.236.1760 or email seniors@bklynlibrary.org.
Film Screening & Discussion: Re-imagining Aging!
Are we ready to live longer? What structures, perceptions and attitudes need
to change in an aging America? A PBS documentary, explores the impact of
people living longer than ever before in human history.
Join us for a with Ashton Applewhite, activist and author of This Chair Rocks in
conversation with;
• Charise K. Lawrence, NYC Department for the Aging
• Paula L. Sanders, NYC Commission On Human Rights
• Maria Alverez, Brooklyn-Wide Interagency Council on Aging, and
• Leslie Sierra, NY Statewide Senior Action Council, Inc.
Refreshments will be served.
Join us on May 30, 2018 from 10 am - 12pm, Central Library, Dweck Auditorium.
More information contact Judith Vigo at 718-230-2442.
Our Streets, Our Stories
Listen to our podcast of Brooklyn's oral histories and learn about the Brooklyn that was, and is.
Listen
Acknowledgements
Services for Older Adults is partially funded by Coordinated Outreach Library Services aid from the NYS Education Department, administered by the State Library’s Division of Library Development. All programs are sponsored by BPL’s Department of Outreach Services, which was established with the generous support of The Charles H. Revson Foundation.
Staff Picks
- Large Print Romance
- Summer Reads
- Science & Nutrition
Island of GlassRoberts, Nora
Sweet TomorrowsMacomber, Debbie
The MistressSteel, Danielle
Accidentally on PurposeShalvis, Jill
Two by TwoSparks, Nicholas
Wyoming BravePalmer, Diana
A Few of the GirlsBinchy, Maeve
The Friends We KeepMallery, Susan
Cometh the HourArcher, Jeffrey
ClawbackJance, Judith A.
BlueSteel, Danielle
Saturn RunSandford, John
Tempting FateGreen, Jane
Miller's ValleyQuindlen, Anna
As Time Goes byClark, Mary Higgins
Property of A NoblewomanSteel, Danielle
Family JewelsWoods, Stuart
Most WantedScottoline, Lisa
Most Wanted ParticleButterworth, Jon
Present at the CreationAczel, Amir D.
A Short History of Nearly EverythingBryson, Bill
CookedPollan, Michael
Eat Fat, Get ThinHyman, Mark