"The San Marcos Senior Center"

 
of the San Marcos Senior Center The organization that I have worked for is called San Marcos Senior Center. I settled in this job because I could not find any radiology job. In addition, I had in the past worked with both the children and youth centers. Therefore, I believed that this is another chance of having an experience with the senior people. The San Marcos Senior Center is located in the city of San Marcos where it serves its senior citizens. At this center, active adults are catered care of in regards to the resources, programs together with the programs that are geared to responding to their numerous and endless needs (San Marcos Senior Center 2). Apart from providing to the needs of the senior people, San Marcos Senior Center also, encourages the seniors to participate in the community activities that generate income whenever possible. Most importantly, San Marcos Senior Center also purposes at enhancing the dignity of the senior citizens with the aim of making them feel accepted and appreciated in the society. Apart from catering for the well-being of the senior individuals, San Marcos Senior Center also organizes and sponsors trips, tours, and vacations for the senior people (Diego 2). Mission of the San Marcos Senior Center The primary mission of the San Marcos Senior Center is to take care of the well-being of the senior citizens of the San Marcos Senior City. Its web site is http://www.ci.san-marcos.ca.us. From this mission, the organization is striving at making the senior citizens of the San Marcos City to be as comfortable as possible so that they could spend the remaining part of their lives in peace. The San Marcos Senior Center takes care of the nutrition, social, as well as the medication of the senior members. However, it must be noted that the organization values equality and integrity in the society with the aim of making them to be healthy as well as to be self-reliant (San Marcos Senior Center 4). Services being offered by the San Marcos Senior Center As a result, they strive at bridging the economic gap that poses a significant challenge to most of the senior members not only to the San Marcos City but also to the most of the societies across the world. To achieve this mission, San Marcos Senior Center participates in several income generating activities such as selling foodstuffs at affordable cost depending on the age of the customers. Specifically, they greatly subsidize foodstuffs for the elderly where $5 is enough to buy lunch for the individuals of age 59 years and younger. However, they are granted an opportunity of donating $4 for seniors above the age of 60 years. It is important to note that the San Marcos Senior Center offers not only a delicious lunch but also well-nourished one. Apart from the provision of the subsidized lunch, the San Marcos Senior Center also provide taxi voucher program to the senior citizens as a way of achieving their mission. In particularly, the San Marcos Senior Center provides taxi voucher that worth $80 for the senior citizens of the San Marcos City of an age exceeding 60 years. This voucher is only meant for the purposes of medical appointments. Apart from being a senior member of the San Marcos Senior City, another qualification for this voucher program is individuals with annual income that is less that $50,000. The voucher program is under the management f the San Marcos Senior Center Transportation Department (San Marcos Senior Center 5). Demographics of the San Marcos City From the data obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau, the San Marcos City is a race diverse city with multiple races residing in it. The majority of the race is whites that constituted a massive 78%. Black and black American has a combined population of 11.8% while American Indians contributed to 0.9% of the total population of the city. Moreover, Hispanics claimed 5.8% of the city. Strikingly, according to the data of research that was conducted in the year 2013, the city had a total population of 54,076 (City of San Marcos 4).