Home Care in Utica, MI

The Shelby Township Senior Center (serves Utica) has a wide variety of activities for adults age 50 and older in order to help keep our residents mentally, physically and socially healthy.

You must register as a member of the Shelby Township Senior Center every year to participate in our events and activities. The cost is $5 for residents of Shelby Township and Utica or $10 for non-residents. Membership is required for all programs.

Our services include transportation, a free community loan closet for medical equipment, mental stimulation with puzzles and brain teasers, physical activity and organizations to promote socialization. All of these serve to benefit the lives of our residents.

Group Fitness Classes

Did you know we offer fitness classes? Check out our current line up and drop-in for an instructor-led class for only $3 per class. No advanced registration is required.

• Balance Class: 1-2 PM Mondays
• Yoga: 10-11 AM Mondays, 1-2 PM Thursdays
• Zumba Gold: 11:30 AM-12:30 PM Mondays
• Aerobics: 10-11 AM Tuesdays & Fridays
• Line Dance: 1 PM Tuesdays
• Chair Exercise: 10-11 AM Wednesdays
• Chair Yoga: 2:15-3:15 PM Thursdays
• Drum Class: 11 AM-Noon Fridays

CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
Balance Class – This medium-impact class uses many different techniques to strengthen the core and to build balance and coordination. Falls cause so many health concerns. Now is the time to work to prevent them.

Yoga – This well-rounded mat yoga class includes standing and balancing postures and stretches on the mat. This class increases flexibility, strength and balance. Please bring your mat.

Aerobic Exercise – This class is our highest level of impact and focuses on aerobic moves. 

Chair Exercise – In this low impact aerobic exercise class, participants sit in a chair for most of the class.

Zumba Gold – This workout incorporates dance and fitness routines set to Latin music. Zumba Gold is performed at a reduced intensity but still burns many calories. Join Donna for this upbeat and fun class.

Chair Yoga – This class is for people who have mobility challenges but would still like to experience the benefits of yoga. This class will use the wall and the chair for support and will not be on the floor. 

Drum Class – Make exercise fun as Rhonda leads us with drum sticks and an exercise ball. This class combines sitting and standing exercises with music. All equipment is provided.

Line Dance Class – This class introduces line dance to participants.  Lynn is the instructor. 

*Classes are subject to cancellation from time to time. Follow us on Facebook for cancellations or schedule adjustments.

Macomb County Meals on Wheels serves meals at the senior center with a limited number of meals available in the building. The staff serves meals on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 11:15 a.m.

To receive Meals on Wheels at your home, contact Macomb County at 586-469-5228.

The city now known as Utica was platted by Joseph Stead in 1817, who preferred to call it “Harlow.” Others referred to the city as “Hog’s Hollow” or “McDougalville,” until a few years later it was finally named Utica by settlers from New York, in honor of the city of the same name in that state. This was common of settlers in this region, and is reflected in the names of nearby cities such as Rochester and Troy that are also named for New York cities.

By the 1940s, Utica was the center of a region of dairy farms and truck gardens. It had a flour mill and shipped rhubarb. Dodge Park a few miles south on the Clinton River was a state park.^[4]

As the 1950s progressed, Detroit auto companies began to build factories in neighboring Sterling and Shelby Townships and the surrounding area began a transformation to an industrial economy.

Utica boasts a small historic district centered on Cass Avenue and Auburn Road, but few of the buildings predate 1906, due to destructive fires in 1905 and 1906.