By Southwester Staff Waterfront Village celebrated its fifth anniversary of helping older adults in Southwest DC and the Navy Yard with a virtual ceremony recognizing the contributions of leaders, volunteers and supporters on October 3. Waterfront Village is a nonprofit organization that supports older adults who want to age in […]
There’s A Party Goin’ On
On the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 13, if you were anywhere other than Westminster Presbyterian Church for the first anniversary celebration of the DC Waterfront Village, you missed out. Any stranger strolling by would have every clue: “There’s A Party Goin’ On.” Walk-ins were welcome in addition to the 100-plus […]
Goal: A Year’s Worth of Seminars on Senior Health and Wellness
Thanks to a new $4,000 matching grant from Friends of Southwest DC (FOS), Waterfront Village hopes to launch a 12-month seminar series focused on health and wellness topics for seniors. The 35 sessions would take place at a local church and would be open to the public. Presenters would include […]
Aging in Place: It Takes a Senior Village
Some 100 Southwest residents turned out at St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church on a cold, windy February night to celebrate the official launch of Waterfront Village—a neighborhood effort to enable southwest residents to “age in place,” i.e., remain in their own homes as they age into their 70s, 80s, and even […]
Waterfront Village Launch Includes Celebration of 15 Years of the Senior Village Movement
Photo caption: Dr. Atul Gawande After several years of planning and nearly six months of pre-launch membership sales and fundraising, the Southwest Waterfront and Navy Yard communities are ready to welcome their first senior village. If the term is unfamiliar to you, a senior village is not a brick-and-mortar retirement community, […]
Waterfront Village Ready to Set Sail!
The effort to provide supportive services to seniors in the Southwest Waterfront and Navy Yard who wish to age in place in their homes is quickly becoming a reality! Waterfront Village joins senior villages in Capitol Hill, Dupont Circle, Georgetown, Foggy Bottom, and six other District neighborhoods as part of […]
Neighborhood Group Looks to Activate “Village”
The Waterfront Gateway Neighborhood Association, an affiliation of eight homeowners’ associations along G St. SW, has started exploratory steps to establish Waterfront Village to serve the greater Southwest community. The village concept is a community-based approach to aging that incorporates principles of a naturally occurring retirement community (NORC), which is a […]