Julia Rivas introduces Contact the Elderly
When
older people live alone, without family or friends living nearby,
loneliness can become their only companion. Contact the Elderly
groups help people aged 75 or older. They are lonely, live at home
on their own and are unable to easily get out of the house unaided.
Small local groups use volunteer drivers who each pick up 1 or 2
elderly people from their own homes. They take them to the home of a
volunteer host where the volunteers and older people spend a few
hours together with afternoon tea, usually on a Sunday.
Each group normally meets once a month, welcomed into the homes of
different hosts.
To meet the needs of the growing numbers of lonely older people in
the Shoreham and Lancing area we are intending to create a new group
and need more volunteers, drivers and hosts in order to make it a
success. Drivers volunteer one Sunday afternoon a month and
hosts volunteer for just two Sunday afternoons a year.
We'd love to hear from anyone who enjoys the company of older people
and has a sense of humour!
For further information please contact me, Julia Rivas, details are
to the left
Thank you,
Julia Rivas |