Programs, Services and Benefits

Breakfast and Lunch and Socials: 

The First Friday of every month the Edmonds Senior Center (EdSC) provides a breakfast for a small fee.  For the year 2010 the Monthly Community Breakfasts will be sponsored by Prestige Care and Rehabilitation of Edmonds.  Please visit them at   www.prestigecare.com. 

We offer a hot meal everyday here at the Center from 11:30 - 12:30.  $2.50 suggested donation for members and those over the age of 60.

For the Lunch Menu and prices please click on the Lunch Menu Link Below

Click Here for the September Lunch Menu

Health and Wellness Programs: 

We offer fitness and exercise classes including Tai Chi and Yoga; foot care clinic, haircuts, massage therapy and reflexology, blood pressure, eyeglass care and hearing screening to name a few; we have a surplus food program and we are a member of Food Lifeline Grocery Rescue Program; every year we serve over 15,000 hot nutritional lunches in our dining room using our newly remodeled kitchen; we loan health assistance equipment (walkers, wheelchairs, crutches, canes, shower chairs, tub assists); we offer SHIBA advisors (free health insurance information to seniors); we have an annual healthy living fair where we have given the following services for free:  health screenings for blood pressure, bone density, prostate cancer, hearing, cholesterol screening, dentures, glucose levels (Better Living Lifestyle).

Social Services and Community Outreach:

We maintain a caregivers resource center; an Alzheimer’s support group; a Parkinson’s Disease support group; a Diabetes support group; sight impaired support group; senior employment service; information and referral service (community resource referral for seniors and their families); our Sounds Thrifty Store which is located at the north end of the Senior Center and offers low priced goods for seniors and the community at large and is a major revenue generator for our operations; the Country Boutique is a consignment store for senior crafters that provides extra income for area seniors including residents of Edmonds; AARP tax assistance; transportation assistance for low income seniors; community breakfasts; themed dinners and summer barbeques.

Education, Recreation, and Social Programs: 

Classes include four foreign languages, choir, band, orchestra, ukulele, basic computer skills, creative writing, world history, Current Issues, Understanding Human Behavior to name a few. Arts and crafts include ceramics, knitting and crocheting, lapidary and gems, woodcarving, driftwood sculpture and quilting. Miscellaneous programs and recreational opportunities include locally planned trips using the our bus or van plus learning to navigate using Community Transit via their buses or the Sounder Commuter Train as well as the Washington State Ferry System.  Guest lecturers provide information on brain fitness, arm chair travel to exotic places, fall prevention, housing options, and many topics of interest to EdSC members and guests.