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Activities
A 22-passenger bus provides transportation for everything from shopping
to cultural events, both locally and to the many theatre and museum
events in the Los Angeles
area.
Social activities range from duplicate bridge, to lawn bowling,
croquet and gardening, to inside board games and movies. Over a dozen
special annual events and festivities offer ample opportunities for
additional fun and excitement.
Casa Dorinda's Activities Department is always busy planning and
preparing quality activities for residents. This department
schedules, promotes and assists in resident and staff-initiated
programs. The Casa's programs offer everything from weekly game
nights to musical events, lawn bowling to Civic Light Opera, folk
dancing to museum trips. Listed below are just some of the ongoing
programs and activities:
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Weekly
Game Night
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Bingo
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Ping-Pong
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Large
Screen Movie Parties
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Duplicate Bridge
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Folk
Dancing
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Resident
Speaker Series
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Theatre
Trips
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Music
Night
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Adult
Ed Classes
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S.B.
Symphony
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Art
for Fun
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Civic
Light Opera
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Lawn
Bowling
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Beach
Walks
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Video
Lectures
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Casa
Concerts
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Croquet
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Resident
Birthday Luncheons
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Museum
Trips
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Lectures
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Annual Events of Special Interest at Casa Dorinda are:
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Super
Bowl Party
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Annual
Fashion Show
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St.
Patrick's Day Party
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Kentucky Derby Party
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Easter
Egg Hunt (for children)
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Octoberfest
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Old
Spanish Days Fiesta Party
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World
Series Party
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Halloween
Costume Party & Dance
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New
Year's Eve Party & Dance
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Valentines
Day Dinner Dance
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Health and Fitness
To help maintain each resident’s physical strength and
independence, Casa Dorinda offers a state of the art Fitness Center. The facility includes a cardio
room, strength training room, group exercise room, indoor therapy
pool and spa, locker rooms, and massage room. The Fitness Center
is staffed Monday through Friday and provides exercise instruction,
equipment orientation, as well as individually designed exercise
programs. A variety of
exercise classes are offered, including:
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Balance
and Strength
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Tai
Chi
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Aqua
Exercise
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Line
Dancing
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Yoga
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Circuit
Training
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Pilates
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Core
Strength
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Transportation
Casa Dorinda offers regularly scheduled trips to shopping centers
in Montecito, nearby Carpenteria and Santa Barbara four days every week.
On alternate days, the bus is used for outings where residents in all
levels of care can participate in scenic hikes, garden tours, or
visiting places of interest. The Casa's four experienced, competent
drivers operate Casa's 22-passenger and 26-passenger busses.
Transportation is provided to evening concert and theatre events
in Santa Barbara
(approximately 50 scheduled outings per year). Casa also schedules,
purchases tickets, charters transportation and accompanies residents
to Los Angeles
theatre performances and museum events.
The Casa provides transportation in its new mini-van to medical
appointments at no charge. Residents are taken directly to the
doctor's door and picked up promptly when their visit is over. The
driver is in constant communication with the Casa's office and can be
reached by the doctor's office within minutes.
Whether it's one of the over 200 annual trips to local movies or a
weekly "joyride" to the scenic town of Solvang, or just out
to get ice cream - whatever residents want and we can provide - we
make every effort to accommodate.
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