In 1961, a group of interested citizens in Covington, Kentucky met once a week to visit, serve refreshments and plan recreational programs for their group. Senior Center, Inc., was organized in 1962 as a recreational center receiving financial assistance from the Community Chest.  Later, the program was enlarged into a Title III project under the Older Americans Act, adding more centers and a limited Outreach Program.

The project was greatly expanded in 1971 to serve older people throughout the Northern Kentucky Area Development District with a broad range of services and programs including: Congregate Meals/Senior Centers, Home Delivered Meals, Transportation. Outreach, Protection from Abuse, Nursing Home Ombudsman, Information and Referral, Lifeline, Homemaker Services, Retired Senior Volunteer Program, the Northern Kentucky Senior Games, Sentinel Newspaper, and One Church/One Elder.

In April 1993, the agency moved into the newly renovated office building and commissary at 1032 Madison Avenue. These new offices enabled all divisions of SSNK to work together under one roof and not spread out throughout several different buildings, as had been the case at the former offices located on Fifth Street in Covington. Along with additional office space also came the possibility of greatly increasing the numbers of Home Delivered Meals being prepared and delivered.

On January 1, 1994 Senior Citizens of Northern Kentucky, Inc. changed its name to Senior Services of Northern Kentucky, Inc., to represent a clearer, more up to date description of the Agency.

Today Senior Services of Northern Kentucky is the primary provider of non-medical services to older adults in this community. SSNK is the ONLY agency in this area responsible for delivering Meals-on-Wheels. With the addition of a Director of Volunteer Services, whose job it is to place individuals in a number of diversified and challenging volunteer positions, we are seeing how much difference our volunteers make each and every day. For many frail, elderly individuals the volunteer or staff member delivering their meals is the ONLY contact with the outside world they receive on a day to day basis.

Senior Services of Northern Kentucky continues to strive to meet the challenge of our mission: "supporting the dignity and independence of older adults".