The Greater Mill Creek Senior Program is hosting its first annual Senior Resource Fair from 9 a.m. to noon Dec. 6, at the Mill Creek Country Club, 15500 Country Club Drive.
“The Senior Resource Fair is an opportunity to become familiar with and pre-register for the programs and services of the Greater Mill Creek Senior Center,” said Bill Durham, director of the Greater Mill Creek Senior Program.
In addition to learning about the program, people will have the opportunity to become acquainted with local professionals and service providers who are dedicated to the senior community.
More than 30 businesses and non-profit organizations will have information booths available for the public to collect information. Exhibitors include at-home services, medical, health care, retirement homes, living wills, care givers and transportation.
“The fair is a great opportunity to increase awareness of not only what the Greater Mill Creek Senior Program has to offer, but also the alarming demands placed on our senior community,” said Durham.
One of the long-term goals of the Greater Mill Creek Senior Program is to have its own facility. Currently the program is headquartered in the Washington State University Extension Building located at McCollum Park.
“We are very fortunate to have use of the WSU facilities,” Durham said, “however, we currently use seven to nine various locations throughout south Snohomish County for various classes and programs, and we see a future demand for more.”
According to USADATA, a company specializing in demographic information, there are approximately 3,000 households in the 98012 ZIP code with adults whose age is 60 or older, and that the Greater Mill Creek Senior Program serves more than 900 of them, approximately 27 percent. Those figures also show an additional 3,400 households whose adults are between the ages 50 and 59. Coupled with the 32.9 percent growth rate during the past decade within the county, program officials estimate that within a few short years the membership should more that double.
“The Greater Mill Creek Senior Program does a fantastic job but it has its hands tied by not having its own facility,” said Kathy Matteson, co-chairman of the Community Service Committee of Mill Creek Rotary. “We have some time but we need to plan and prepare for the demands the retiring ‘baby-boomers’ will ask of our resources, over the next several years.”
Fair sponsors are Mill Creek Rotary and Senior Resource Alliance of Greater Everett.
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