Senior Connections program helps nursing-home residents regain community and dignity
If you or someone you know is looking for a way to make a difference in our community, and you have an hour a week to change a person’s life for the better (and really, you know you do), check out the Senior Connections program run by the Singer Institute of St. Louis. Senior Connections provides training, ongoing support, and placement for volunteers who make a weekly visit to a person in a nursing home who otherwise would have no visitors. Can you imagine being shut in with no contact from the outside world? Turns out many many people are living such lives. But you can provide the simple human connection they need to thrive.
Members of all ages at the Ethical Society have been taking part in this program for over a year, and we recently received an amazing letter from one of the homes our volunteers visit. Here’s an excerpt:
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