THURSDAY 21 0CTOBER Study Tour Day 1 - Seattle. Visit 1. HORIZON HOUSE, 900 University Street, Seattle.

Horizon House - a major city retirement community facility opened in 1991 and sponsored by the United Church of Christ. 525 residents in 392 independent and 90 supported living apartments. Our welcome briefing was given by CEO - Bob Anderson. See: http://www.horizonhouse.org

We also received presentations from Deb Murphy, CEO of Aging Services of Washington, the state provider association with 106 member organisations (http://agingwa.org), and from Scott Peifer, Associate Director for State Policy at CAST (http://www.aahsa.org/cast.aspx).

Location:Seattle, Washington, USA