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Seniors Helping Seniors
Our Senior Companion Program serves a dual purpose:
- Provides one-on-one supportive services to older adults to help them maintain their independence and improve their quality of life.
- Creates volunteer service opportunities for those who are at least 21 years old.
Possible Volunteer Activities:
- Personal Care
- Remind to take medications
- Provide grief support
- Assist in reality orientation/awareness
- Encourage exercise, take walks with client, and/or provide information on exercise or recreation
- Nutrition
- Prepare food, plan meals, label and organize food
- Provide health or nutrition information
- Social/Recreation
- Provide companionship, talking, listening, cheering up, playing games or cards
- Home Management
- Write letters, read, assist with filling out forms
- Complete light housework tasks
- Light gardening
- Information and Advocacy
- Provide information about community services
- Assist with obtaining eligibility for services
- Bring unmet needs to the attention staff and other care providers
- Respite Care
- Assist home bound clients served by caregivers who are in need of respite care to prevent a breakdown in household capability
Eligibility Requirements to Become a Client:
- Must be at least 60 years old
- Must live in Cumberland County
- Must have needs that can be met by volunteers (see above for allowable activities)
Eligibility Requirements to Become a Volunteer:
- Must be at least 21 years old
- Attend orientation course and monthly meeting
- Subject to a criminal background check
Benefits of Becoming a Volunteer:
- Monthly in-service sessions to help you learn about resources, programs and health tips for the elderly
- Mileage reimbursement
- An orientation course to give you the tools needed to get the most out of your experience
- Supplemental volunteer insurance
- Recognition for your service
For more information call (910) 484-0111 and ask for Kelly Moreton, Program Coordinator.
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Cumberland County Council on Older Adults was established in 1968 as a non-profit organization and fifty-five years later we remain committed to our original mission of helping older adults living in Cumberland County maintain their independence at home with dignity.
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