NEW YORK, NY May 03, 2008 —The city's Department of Aging is getting its first major restructuring in decades.

Members of the city council visited a senior center in Brooklyn Friday to listen to some of the concerns of elderly New Yorkers and their families. Nathaniel Boyd says his 80-year-old mother used to go to the center in the Gowanus Projects but stopped because they only served meals.

BOYD: She asked me isn't we able to get services where we can open up a room, put a pool table, put some games - that we can come down and play games. my mother doesn't even go down to the center anymore. She feels tired, cause she doesn't want to go and just sit around; she wants to do something that gives her some energy.

REPORTER: The city is trying to make senior centers more appealing to a growing elderly population and plans to streamline certain aspects of the agency.