Salem, Oregon
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Mon - Thurs: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Sunday: Closed
WOW (Wellness on Wheels) Van
Salem's Center 50+ now offers the WOW Van, a Mobile Senior Center. With support from Mountain West Investments, Salem Health, United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley, P3 Health Partners Oregon, and Home Instead Senior Care, Center 50+ now delivers a wide range of services to area seniors.
Visits from the Award-Winning Wellness on Wheels (WOW) Van include fitness, nutrition, mobility and wellness programming, activities, lifelong learning instruction, social check-ins, and technology tutoring. The WOW Van will be popping up throughout the community.
The WOW Van earned a 2024 award for Modernizing Senior Centers Innovation from the National Institute of Senior Centers, recognizing the creation of a Mobile Senior Center as an important industry advancement.
The WOW Van, or Mobile Senior Center, recognizes that community is built where people live and thrive. Also, Center 50+ has nearly reached capacity in its 30,000 square foot facility in northeast Salem – two reasons that led to the concept of the Mobile Senior Center .
The WOW Van takes advantage of beautiful parks in every area of town, unused clubhouses, empty alleyways and neighborhood hubs where services can be delivered. Taking services into the neighborhoods allows the neighborhood to design the culture and environment. Center 50+ facilitates the activity, but the group and folks who live in that neighborhood lead the way (What language will we speak? What food will we serve? What activities will we enjoy?).