As a critical community resource, the senior centre has provided older Americans with a wide array of recreational, nutritional, health, and social service programmes. Funding resources include the Older Americans Act allocations, local organisations and governments, national charities, voluntary associations, and religious associations. The types of programmes offered at a senior centre reflect two models: social agency model or voluntary organisation model. The five most popular programmes are nutrition, health and fitness, recreation, volunteering, and social services. Participation in senior centre activities has positive impacts on the overall well-being of older adult participants. With the rapid growth in the ageing population and improved life expectancy in China, senior centres may serve as a focal point for Chinese older adults by providing a broad spectrum of social services to enhance the well-being of community-dwelling older adults, to support their independence and dignity, and to facilitate ageing in place in later life.

在美國，老人中心是一種關鍵的社區資源，為老年人提供一系列娛樂，營養，健康和社會服務。其資金源自美國老年人法案配額，地方政府和組織，慈善機構，自願者協會及宗教組織老人中心服務項目反映了兩種模式：。社會機構模式和自願者協會模式而五種最受歡迎的項目分別是營養飲食，衛生健康，娛樂，自願者服務和社會服務參加老人中心活動對老年人有全面及積極的健康影響。在中國，面對人口快速老化和不斷增長的預期壽命，老人中心可作為一種集中服務模式，為老年人提供一系列廣泛的社會服務，促進居家老年人的全面健康，維護獨立和尊嚴，以及促進和社區養老。

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