Seniors Service

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Agenda

The program of these activities can be found in the agenda of this website.

The information brochure ACT III with all these activities and a guide with services and aid for elderly at the City and the Public Welfare Centre is available on request at:

• Demography
  Seniors service
  Place Sainte-Catherine, 18
  1000 Brussels
  [plan]
  Tel. : 02 279 34 95
  seniors@brucity.be
  Telephone hours : from Monday till Friday from 9 am till 5 pm
  

Pavilions for seniors

The seniors can also visit 4 pavilions for activities. These pavilions are open each day and seniors can meet each other here for games, little meals,... The 4 pavilions of the City of Brussels:

• Senior Pavilion Leopold
  Square Prince Léopold (in the center of the public garden)
  1020 Brussels (Laeken)
  [plan]
  Tel. : 02 479 14 45
  Opening hours : from Monday till Friday from 1 pm till 5 pm
  

• Senior Pavilion Cinquantenaire
  Parc du Cinquantenaire (next to the mosque)
  1000 Brussels
  [plan]
  Opening hours : from Monday till Friday from 1 pm to 5 pm
  

• Espace S
  Rue Comtesse de Flandre 4
  1020 Brussels (Laeken)
  [plan]
  Tel. : 02 425 39 15
  Opening hours : from Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 5 pm.
  

• Senior Pavilion Kluys
  Parc Meudon
  1120 Brussels (Neder-Over-Heembeek)
  [plan]
  Closing period : closed until the end of April 2011
  

At big events a bus of the City of Brussels connects the pavilions.

Workshops

At Espace S and the Leopold Pavilion workshops for seniors are being organized. These workshops combine leisure and well-being for seniors. They offer information on less accessible subjects such as ICT, the use of a mobile phone,... The workshops are also about health prevention: moving, avoid falling, eating healthy food, tinkering,...

Week of Seniors

Each year, the Seniors Service organizes a Week of Seniors with free activities, events and conferences for people older than 55 years.

Brussels as an 'Age-friendly city'

The City of Brussels also entered the network of the 'Age-friendly cities' of the World Health Organization (WHO). An 'age-friendly city' focuses on the aging of the population and tries actively to improve health, participation in society and safety of seniors.