Retirement News : Seniors : Wellness center for seniors debuts

Wellness center for seniors debuts

Date Added: 15-09-2005

Read this excerpt about development to a retirement complex near Seattle.

By Peyton Whitely

Seattle Times Eastside bureau

What will $7 million buy these days?

In Bothell, it's buying something believed to be unduplicated anywhere in the state in terms of providing services for an aging population.

It's called the Northshore Health & Wellness Center, operated by the Northshore Senior Center.

The senior center, which opened in 1992 on the south side of East Riverside Drive, has led to what has come to be called retirement row along that road south of downtown Bothell. Increasing numbers of retirement complexes have opened there, largely because of the nationally acclaimed senior center, said Marty Dennis, the center director.

The senior center is believed to be the largest in the nation in terms of people served, she said, with more than 8,000 people using it many times a year and about 2,000 volunteers helping out.

But part of the concept included the wellness center being built on the north side of the street, and that's what opened last week after six years of planning and fund raising. Much of the credit for the new center goes to Marianne LoGerfo, who retired in December after 22 years as the senior-center director, Dennis said.

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