Elderly

"Beggars Can't Be Choosers" and other Life Lessons

On a day-to-day basis I struggle with the adage, "Beggars can't be choosers."Occasionally I field a call from a client with feelings of entitlement, and sometimes I get a client whose vol

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Different Chores for Different Folks

Yesterday was easily the most stressful day of volunteering.

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What (Doesn't) Motivate You?

Before I became the director of Chore, I was an intern in the office helping with client intake and matching them with volunteers.

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Anna Bissonnette - Ending Elder Homelessness

For 20 years, Anna Bissonnette has been a force to be reckoned with when it comes to elder homelessness. As a community nurse, Bissonnette, now 75, of Waltham could not walk away from the patients she was treating in various Boston neighborhoods. It was the mid-1980s and seniors in the 70s and 80s were being forced out of their homes and into homeless shelters by gentrification.

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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service

Every third Monday of January, members of Salt Lake City along with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Human Rights Commission and our Mayor Ralph Becker, celebrates the Martin Luther King, Jr.

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