Live Breaking News & Updates on Hebrew Seniorlife Center

By Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
March 4, 2021
Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
Deanna and Sidney Wolk say their generous gift will help make ‘the Memory Center’ available to anybody who needs it.”
A Dorchester native and his wife have donated $5 million to help those battling dementia and Alzheimer’s under the auspices of the Hebrew SeniorLife Center in Roslindale. The contribution will help the non-profit assist seniors and their caregivers through the newly renamed Deanna and Sidney Wolk Center for Memory Health, an outpatient center next to the Arnold Arboretum that is affiliated with Harvard Medical School.
“We want people to know about the program, to use it. We want to be able to help them in their needs,” said Sidney Wolk, who grew up in a family of modest means near Fields Corner. As a child, he said, he was taught the importance of “tzedakah,” the Hebrew word for charitable giving. ....

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