This program has helped more than one hundred persons remain in their homes during the past two years, rather than having to move to a nursing home. Many persons who qualify as seniors in age are young at heart and young in mind and body. We live longer than ever and older adults remain active and youthful longer than their parents and grandparents. Every month the SCI employment coordinator makes approximately 200 job referrals to local employers, many of whom will tell you that older workers are able and dependable employees. For seniors who like to go places, SCI and Fountain Tours provide opportunities to travel within the United States and abroad.
Trips are expertly supervised and activities are geared to senior travelers.
Two thousand seniors in Middle Tennessee give more than 50,000 hours of their time each year. Friends Learning in Pairs. I hope that if you have read this far, you are asking yourself what you can do. Opportunities abound through SCI for everyone who would like to get involved in any of the ways mentioned above. The coordinator of volunteer services is John Barner.