Banner Seniors
Living Out the Fullness of Life
Caring for the Home and the Heart
Many older adults want to remain in their own homes and continue living in the neighborhoods where they have built their lives, raised families, supported churches, watched communities change, and contributed to East Baltimore for decades. Banner Seniors was created to help make that possible.
Banner Seniors is Banner Neighborhoods Community Corporation’s comprehensive older adult program serving residents age 60 and older in East Baltimore. The program brings together social connection, wellness education, case management, referrals, public benefits support, and home repair coordination so that older adults can remain connected, healthy, informed, and safe at home.
We believe aging in place is about more than a house. It is about dignity, independence, belonging, safety, and quality of life. That is why Banner Seniors is designed to care for both the heart and the home.
What We Do
Banner Seniors provides a community-based support system for older adults and their families. Our team works with seniors to understand their needs, connect them to trusted resources, and create opportunities for meaningful engagement.
The program focuses on three major goals:
1. Connected and Engaged in Community
Banner Seniors helps older adults stay socially connected through Senior Clubs, community gatherings, workshops, special events, trips, intergenerational activities, and regular outreach. Our Senior Clubs operate like a “senior center without walls,” bringing programs into familiar community spaces and helping older adults build friendships, stay active, and remain connected to what is happening around them.
Social connection is a key part of healthy aging. Many older adults face loneliness, mobility challenges, transportation barriers, or limited access to regular activities. Banner Seniors works to reduce social isolation by creating welcoming opportunities for older adults to gather, share, learn, celebrate, and support one another.
Examples of community connection activities may include:
- Senior Club meetings and social gatherings
- Seasonal celebrations and special events
- Arts, crafts, and enrichment activities
- Community outings and trips
- Intergenerational activities with youth and neighbors
- Monthly newsletters and phone outreach to keep seniors informed
2. Healthy, Informed, and Supported
Banner Seniors offers Wellness Education and health-related programming that supports older adults in managing their health, staying active, and making informed decisions. Workshops are designed to be practical, accessible, and rooted in the real concerns of older adults in the community.
Topics may include:
- Fall prevention and balance safety
- Chronic disease management
- Nutrition and healthy eating
- Mental wellness and seasonal depression
- Medication awareness
- Emergency preparedness
- Home safety and injury prevention
These workshops provide more than information. They create space for seniors to ask questions, share experiences, practice new skills, and connect with supportive staff, partners, and peers.
Banner Seniors also helps older adults navigate public benefits and social services. Depending on the resident’s needs, staff may help connect seniors to resources such as food assistance, transportation support, healthcare enrollment, legal services, utility assistance, homeowner support, and other community programs.
3. Safe and Secure at Home
Through the Housing Upgrades to Benefit Seniors program, known as HUBS, Banner helps eligible older adult homeowners address home repair and safety needs that can affect health, independence, and housing stability.
Many older adults live in homes that need repairs such as roof work, plumbing, heating, accessibility modifications, handrails, broken windows, or other safety improvements. These issues can increase fall risk, create health hazards, and threaten an older adult’s ability to remain in their home.
Banner staff work one-on-one with residents to assess needs, gather required documents, identify possible funding sources, coordinate referrals, and help move repair cases through the process when resources are available. While funding availability and eligibility requirements vary, Banner’s role is to help seniors understand their options and connect to appropriate programs whenever possible.
Home-related support may include:
- Home safety assessments
- Critical repair referrals and coordination
- Accessibility modification support
- Connection to HUBS and partner resources
- Follow-up support to help residents move through the process
How to Get Started
If you are interested in Banner Seniors, the first step is to contact the Banner Seniors team. A staff member will talk with you about your needs, explain the program, answer questions, and help determine what services or referrals may be helpful.
Depending on the need, Banner staff may schedule a follow-up conversation, help with a referral, connect you to an upcoming workshop or Senior Club activity, or begin the process for home repair coordination.
