Dancing alone: A senior center keeps clients up and moving
Associated PressWASHINGTON — Dance instructor Lola Jaramillo switches the radio to an uplifting salsa song. The dance lesson was shared on the social media accounts of a nonprofit senior center in Washington that has been serving the capital’s older Hispanic community for over 50 years. “There is no physical connection now, but there is an emotional connection and we’re trying to do this in different ways,” says Blanche Cotlear, the center’s executive director. Cotlear says feeding the social media accounts with video classes was a creative way to keep her clients company in times of social distancing, when many might feel isolated and scared. Jovina Guillén de León, a 67-year-old from the Dominican Republic who attends Vida Senior Center, recently followed one of the online exercise classes in her kitchen while her roommate filmed her moving around.
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