Children aren't the only ones in need of gifts this holiday season.
Home Instead Senior Care is attempting to make the holidays more special for seniors who wind up spending Christmas alone through the organization's Be a Santa to a Senior program.
Home Instead has partnered with local retailers, nonprofit agencies and volunteers to bring gifts to seniors in need.
The participating local businesses will display Christmas trees holding ornaments bearing seniors' first names and desired gifts.
Shoppers can pick out an ornament, buy the gift and return it, unwrapped, to that store. Volunteers and program partners will then wrap and deliver the gifts.
Partnering businesses and sites include Rest Haven Rehabilitation and Nursing Home, Orthopedic and Spine Specialists and the York County Area Agency on Aging. The gift trees can also be found at the Hanover Hall, 267 Frederick St., Hanover, and the Boscov's Department Store in the York Galleria. The effort will continue until Dec. 16.
"A lot of seniors go through the holiday period alone and isolated. It is a time of reflection, depression and loneliness," says Doug Hevner, a local owner and general manager for Home Instead Senior Care.
He says the purpose of Be a Santa to a Senior is to "pick them up with a gift" and to make this "a brighter time."
Home Instead Senior Care is attempting to make the holidays more special for seniors who wind up spending Christmas alone through the organization's Be a Santa to a Senior program.
Home Instead has partnered with local retailers, nonprofit agencies and volunteers to bring gifts to seniors in need.
The participating local businesses will display Christmas trees holding ornaments bearing seniors' first names and desired gifts.
Shoppers can pick out an ornament, buy the gift and return it, unwrapped, to that store. Volunteers and program partners will then wrap and deliver the gifts.
Partnering businesses and sites include Rest Haven Rehabilitation and Nursing Home, Orthopedic and Spine Specialists and the York County Area Agency on Aging. The gift trees can also be found at the Hanover Hall, 267 Frederick St., Hanover, and the Boscov's Department Store in the York Galleria. The effort will continue until Dec. 16.
"A lot of seniors go through the holiday period alone and isolated. It is a time of reflection, depression and loneliness," says Doug Hevner, a local owner and general manager for Home Instead Senior Care.
He says the purpose of Be a Santa to a Senior is to "pick them up with a gift" and to make this "a brighter time."
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