Iona Senior Services

Mission & History 

Iona’s story begins in 1975 in a clapboard house on Butterworth Place in the Tenleytown neighborhood in Northwest Washington. The house took on a new life as the home of a program created to provide social services to people in the surrounding neighborhoods. Named “Iona House” after a tiny Scottish island known for its dedication to fellowship and service, the program would eventually emerge as a force in the community that has benefited tens of thousands of older adults and caregivers in Washington, DC and beyond for more than 40 years.