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Due to COVID-19, many senior living apartments have only recently resumed offering outside organizations’ programs. With sites opening up to programming, FCHS reached out to offer free nutrition classes for residents in two senior living apartment complexes, Architects Housing in Trenton and Ewing Independent Living Apartments in Ewing. Our nutrition educators taught lessons from the Eat Smart, Live Strong lesson series, which provided seniors aged 60+ with tangible ideas on increasing their fruit and vegetable intake and physical activity. The seniors also participated in lively discussions with each other, sharing ideas on how they overcome common barriers to meeting their health goals. In addition, they did some simple physical activities, sampled fruit, and vegetable-packed smoothies, and received a free insulated cooler bag. FCHS was thrilled to be able to bring our programming to seniors again and to facilitate health-enhancing conversations among the apartment residents!