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Faith
Therapy AssistantDebra Gaiz
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I would like to participate with my Day Therapy Centre Clients in a pen-pal group. We are seniors living in Perth Australia aged between 70 and 99 years old. We would be interest in pen-pals from all over the world and all other backgrounds due to a lot of our clients are of Jewish heritage. My clients are fun loving family oriented people who love to chat and have a good time. Please contact me and any ideas would be welcome.
My email is fstewart@mzh.org.au
I have a Senior Center in Sand Lake, MI. I would like to see if any of my people would like a pen pal. Our next meeting is Friday, January 25th, 2019. Would this work?
This sounds wonderful Faith! Im in the U.K. and have 38 loving, and wonderful individuals who i love to bits and they love people and i think the would love pen pals!
Great. Im in!
Thanks Susan and Marie , this is exciting .
My work email is
fstewart@mzh.org.au
Please email and lets set this up
Hi we are a home in England .our residents would love to share our stories, and become pen pal homes
Hi Bridget
Im so excited at the response i have got . Im looking forward to our residents communicating to each other.
Again My Email is fstewart@mzh.org.au
Thanks Faith
We are also in Perth and would be interested in conversing conversation. Even via email for those that don't have fine motor skills but are cognitive. We have a lot of Dutch residents, some English.
Please contact
ota@manoah.org.au
I have a resident in particular who is looking for a pen pal. We live in St. Paul Mn. She is alert and oriented x3. My email is Mgianesin@preshomes.org
Hi Faith, I think this is a great idea and will ask the residents here if they would like to join in as a group or individuals. If they are interested, I will contact you.
hi,
im in derbyshire england and looking for a penpal for the ladies and gentlemen i work with if anyone is interested
nadineshinfield@hotmail.com
Hi,
I am the Director of a Community Respite Day Program called SALT (Senior Adults Living Triumphantly). Our participants really enjoyed receiving and sending Christmas cards this year. I know they would love to have long distant pen pals!! Most of our participants are in the early stages of the disease and still enjoy reading and writing. Please include us as pen pals! Our email is saltofdemopolis@gmail.com and our physical address is:
SALT
c/o Demopolis First United Methodist Church
200 East Decatur St
Demopolis, AL 36732
Thanks!
Bambi Hamilton
I think that is a great idea and will ask my residents if they would be interested. I am in an Age Care Facility on the Sunshine Coast. My email address is lorrainefoley2017@gmail.com
Hi There!
My name is Nicole and I am the Program Coordinator for an Adult Day Centre at Hospice in Fredericton, New Brunswick in Canada. Is there anyone out there that would be our clients pen pal? Our clients are 55-95 and most have dementia. They would love to have this oppurtunity. Please send me an email if you are interested adultdaycentre@hospicefredericton.ca
My name is Becky and I am the Activity Coordinator for a LTC/rehab facility in Findlay Ohio. Our facility consists of 136 beds and about 36 of those are rehab. One of our neighborhoods is very interested in a pen pal program. My email address is radams@bvhealthsystem.org.
Our address is:
Birchaven Village
15100 Birchaven Ln.
Findlay, Ohio 45840
c/o Becky Adams ADC
I wrote to several on here regarding corresponding back and forth it started out well then we never heard back and we could only assume the fires there had something to do with it....but we were very excited to add this to our weekly activities and then it just dried up.
anyway, we are a 20 bedded assisted living unit in a very rural area of canada, so if anyone wants to talk to us, please email me carnduff13@gmail.com
We are in the US and would love to join the pen pal group! We are a Personal Care home of Approx. 90 seniors.
My email is: tmonteleone@leisurecare.com
Rebeca Carver
Smoky Mountain Health & Rehabilitation Center
1349 Crabtree Road
Waynesville, NC 28785
We are in the US also and would love to join the pen pal group!
Rebecca Carver, Activity Director
Smk18-act@smokymountaincare.com
So good to see you all are connecting through Golden carers , Hope it goes well .
Hello! My name is Jocelyn and I am the Activity Director for New Horizon Lodge Senior Living, located in the City of Stanton, California. I have approximately 65 residents in our community that would love to received and send letters to friends worldwide. Kindly send an email to jocelyn@trucarecommunity.com. Thank you so much!
Hi I am also in WA Bunbury and looking get the pen pals going in my center
Any sugestions on how to approach the subject with residents, unfortunately there has been many changes in the facility over the past 2 years and the residents have become a bit hesitant to try new things. Ive just taken over as coordinator and trying to re establish the things that they used to love as well as some new ides
Hi Julianne
Look at the suggestions from others
Work with them as a group to write a letter
Involve some school children
Hi! Are you still looking for pin pals? I have a few residents that enjoy this.... I live in the Palm Springs innCalifornia
Hi my name is Isela and I am the ACTIVITY DIRECTOR in a long term care facility in San Antonio Texas i would really like to start a pen pal program so if anybody is interested in joining my group shoot me an email and we can get it going ichapa@ensignservices.net
Hi there
Yes most certainly we would have some clients that would love to be a pen pal. Please reach out to Bev Latour co Sam Central Program Adult Day Program 10 Pearl Street North Unit A
Hamilton Ontario Canada L8R 2Y8. Thank you in advance to all that participate its a great way to keep CONNECTED in the world! My email is Blatour@gsch.ca . Our client age ranges from 22 to 104 and everyone in between.
Thank you Beverly
Everyone on this thread may be interested in this article
https://www.goldencarers.com/how-to-start-a-pen-pal-program-for-seniors/7016/
Hello I am looking to set up a pen pal service for my residents, I am an activities coordinator at a retirement extra care facility in the UK. I have residents aged 50-87. At Huntley Place we have residents that are very independent and some that need a lot of care needs. I think starting this now with the pandemic happening will bring back the community spirit and join different parts of the world together. I have some residents that would like individual pen pals and some of the residents that would be happy to send a group letter. If you are interested please contact me on Natalie.Clark@homegroup.org.uk. We are happy for anywhere in the world or even in the UK.
Hi Natalie look at all the posts on this thread you also may want to check the Out
https://www.goldencarers.com/how-to-start-a-pen-pal-program-for-seniors/7016/
Thanks to everyone who has replied and taken an interest, I’m on extended sick leave and will be back in May and I will sort it out ... I have grabbed name and address and will reply to you all . Thanks and take care
Hi Faith
I hope we are better soon
Thank you for responding
WE WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO YALL'S PEN PAL PROGRAM MY EMAIL IS dequincyactivities@trustcaremananagement.com THANK YALL
Hello, I am the activity director of a 36 bed facility in New Brunswick, Canada. Some of my residents would love to have pen pals from around the world. I can be reached at stefmike@bellaliant.net Thanks!
Hi Stephanie
Why not contact some people in this thread
Hi Stephanie
This article will also help you
https://www.goldencarers.com/how-to-start-a-pen-pal-program-for-seniors/7016/
Hello. I am the Senior Site Manager of the Catawissa Senior Center in Catawissa, PA. We have some members that would like to have pen pals and write to anyone from anywhere in the world. Our members range i age from 60 - 94 years old. My email is ccenter@cmaaa15.org.
Thanks!
Hi Debi
Look at these comments I am sure you can find someone C here
Hello Everyone,
We are an Aged Care Nursing Home in a gorgeous little country town in Victoria, Australia.
We would love to meet some lovely people from all around the world to become pen pals, please send me an email if interested.
Jeanne Cartwright
Activities Coordinator
jcartwright@dugnh.com.au