Category Archives: Seniors

The Chelmsford Library serves the intellectual, entertainment, and social needs of the Chelmsford Community. We have a variety of resources, programs, and services, available both at our main branch in Chelmsford center and our MacKay branch in North Chelmsford.

Our mission is to provide for people with disabilities the support needed to live, work, learn, grow, and participate to their fullest potential in their community.

Free legal service & advice to ages 60 & over re: Social Security & Public Benefits; housing/landlord/tenant law; health care & nursing home disputes; utility shut-offs; financial exploitation; physical abuse, guardianship & conservatorship; domestic abuse. Services are NOT provided in criminal cases, real estate matters, probate or estate planning.

The objective of the club is to stimulate the knowledge and love of horticulture, floriculture, and landscape design, to aid in the protection and conservation of natural resources; to promote civic beautification and roadside improvement and to offer socialization and friendship.

LIRA is a peer learning program that provides quality educational and cultural opportunities for retired or semi-retired persons who enjoy pursuing new knowledge, enhancing existing interests, and designing their own curriculum. Peer learning and active participation are key concepts of the program. The basic offering is an 8 week study group proposed, planned, and coordinated by LIRA members. Trips and outings to museums, concerts, plays, and sites of interest are common features of study groups. Members also raise money for two scholarships at UMass Lowell and donate to the children at Community Teamwork during the holidays. These donations are warm head wear, gloves, mittens and children’s reading books. LIRA is affiliated with The Elderhostel Institute Network.

The purpose of the Lowell Humane Society is preventing cruelty to animals, providing care for homeless and distressed animals, and educating the public in proper animal care. Services: animal shelter and animal protective society; animals for adoption; Pet Therapy for Senior Citizens; animal population control; lost & found; humane education and information services; ambulance services.

AgeSpan (formerly known as Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley and North Shore) is a private, nonprofit agency dedicated to helping people in northeast Massachusetts maintain their highest levels of independence, health, and safety as they age. We are a Massachusetts Aging Services Access Point (ASAP), an Area Agency on Aging (AAA), and a designated Protective Services provider.

The Chelmsford Cultural Council is committed to funding a diverse cross-section of activities. We support a variety of art forms, works of local artists, environmental education projects and collaborative proposals that bring together artists, organizations, and local cultural groups in projects that serve Chelmsford and the surrounding communities.

To provide emotional support for those whose lives have been affected by Alzheimer’s disease. It informs and educates not only victims and their families but the general public as well.