"I used to be a fire, but now I’m a little flame," laughs Deborah Wise.

Still full of spunky energy, Deborah loves her senior center. She has nothing but glowing compliments about her senior center and its staff.

"The quality. You know how it was better in the olden days. The people here treat you like in the olden days. ‘How are you, Miss Debbie?’"

Deborah continues, "There is a quality of service here that is not repeated. This could be the model. This needs to be cloned. They treat people as you want to be treated."

After a short pause, Deborah shows a spark of her former fire by adding, "They treat you better!"

Empowering people to thrive, as senior centers do, is a hallmark of California’s 50 years of dedicated commitment to enriching the lives of older adults.