INDIANAPOLIS — Good energy is what you’ll find when you visit BB’s Home Away from Home.
“They keep us moving and shaking. They gave us new energy about ourselves,” Roberta Smith said.
It is more than physical. There’s a mental side too.
Guests get home-cooked meals, play memory and fitness games, have weekly outings, and get rides to and from the center and doctor’s appointments.
Some participants call it life-changing.
WRTV “It gives me joy every time I wake up in the morning and come here,” Smith said. “I am usually sad at home, depressed and crying all the time. Now, I have encouragers, new brothers and sisters.”
“It’s really helped with isolation because I’m not talking to the walls at home,” Bonnie Hartley said. “It’s made me feel a lot better in my body because we exercise, we have devotion in the morning, and it’s opened my mental up.”
Brittany Owens is the executive director. She wanted something to keep her going after the death of her grandparents. She knew of the need for affordable senior services.