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Be a Santa to a Senior

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Lea Richmond
Telephone: 813.629.2132

Local Senior Care Company and Community Partners Play Santa to Overlooked Seniors

A local senior care company, along with various community partners, are bringing Santa to the lives of seniors who may have been overlooked in the hustle and bustle of the Holiday season.

The Hillsborough County office of Home Instead Senior Care®, the world’s largest provider of non-medical home care and companionship for seniors, has teamed with PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Hunter’s Green Country Club, the Greater Riverview and Greater Temple Terrace Chambers of Commerce, C.J.’s Deli and Cafe in Riverview, Hudson Manor Assisted Living and Hawthorne Inn to provide gifts to seniors who otherwise might not receive a gift this Holiday season. Through this program, we were able to supply 450 seniors (distributing over 1200 gifts) with Holiday Cheer last year.


“In addition to supplying gifts, Be a Santa to a Senior® is also designed to help stimulate human contact and social interaction for seniors who are unlikely to have guests during the holidays,” said Kristi Campbell, owner of the Home Instead Senior Care® office serving Hillsborough County. “Since children are often the focus of holiday festivities, we’d like to help brighten the Holidays for some area seniors as well.”

Here’s how the program works: Prior to the Holiday season, Home Instead Senior Care® will identify seniors in the community who will be without family. Christmas trees, which will be located in the participating community partners’ locations, will feature ornaments with the first names of seniors and their respective gift requests.

Interested donors can select an ornament, purchase the items on the list, and return them to the participating locations with the ornament attached. Home Instead Senior Care® will enlist the volunteer help of its staff, senior care business associates, non-profit groups and others in the community to collect, wrap and distribute the gifts to these seniors. A gift-wrapping day will be held in early December.

“This program is a way that we can give back to our community by providing gifts to some of our most treasured residents,” Campbell said. “Our hope is that the gifts also can help these seniors recapture some of the excitement of their childhood.”

If you are interested in volunteering to help or have additional questions, contact Lea Richmond at 813.629.2132.
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Editor’s Note: For more information about Be a Santa to a Senior, or to arrange photos of the gift-wrapping day, contact Lea Richmond at 813.629.2132.