Government & Politics
Aging Commission Chairman: As Darien’s Senior Population Grows, Town Improves Services
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A higher fee for lunches at the Senior Center might be coupled with improvements in the already good meals; tax relief should go to veterans, many of whom are seniors, and the state should tax estates less in order to keep more seniors in Connecticut. Those were some of the topics and recommendations covered in a kind of “State of the Town for Seniors” presentation given to the Board of Selectmen on Monday by Joseph Pankowski Jr., chairman of the Darien Commission on Aging. The commission is a town government advisory panel that monitors the town Senior Center and otherwise advocates for senior citizens. The population of seniors is large in Darien — about 3,000 of the town’s 20,000 or so residents (roughly one in seven) is over the age of 60, Pankowski told the board`, and “this demographic is the fastest growing segment of the town’s population.” Mather Center
The Senior Center moved from its former Edgerton Street location and started meeting at the then-brand new Mather Community Center on July 21, 2014, Pankowski reminded the selectmen.