<!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ --></p> <p>from <a href=""https://calmatters.org/author/meisi-li/"" title=""Posts" by="" meisi="" li="" class=""author" url="" fn="" rel=""author"">Macy Lee</a>CalMatters</p> <p>This story was originally published by <a href=""https://calmatters.org/"">CalMatters</a>. <a href=""https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/"">Sign up</a> for their newsletters.</p> <p>California has hundreds of community senior centers and community spaces serving older adults across the state, but there’s no easy way to find one near you. We’ve put together this map to help fill that gap.</p> <p>Senior centers are different from assisted living programs or day care for seniors. <a href=""https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2026/02/senior-centers-what-we-learned/"">They are public spaces</a> where seniors can share food, play sports, watch movies and find social connections.</p> <p>Use the map above to find a senior community center near you. Enter your address to see the nearest option in your area. Orange markers indicate special centers for seniors, while yellow markers indicate other community centers that may offer programs for seniors. The map is based on public information from 2024, so some locations may have changed or closed. If you notice outdated or incorrect information, <a href=""https://forms.gle/MP2saaaiYEqDbzSg7"">let us know</a>.</p> <p>To create this map, we reviewed the 2024-2028 area plans submitted by California’s regional agencies on aging, which coordinate services in counties and groups of counties. Federal law requires each of the 33 local agencies to submit a territory plan to the state Department on Aging every four years. We removed senior centers and other community centers, if any, from each plan. We then searched for contact information for each center.</p> <p>This article was <a href=""https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2026/03/senior-centers-map/"">originally published on CalMatters</a> and is republished under <a href=""https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/"">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives</a> license.</p> <p> Copy the HTML
