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Faith avatar

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

Susan avatar

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?

Marie avatar
Marie Care Home Assistant/Entertainments Organizer

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!

Faith avatar

Thanks Susan and Marie , this is exciting .

My work email is

fstewart@mzh.org.au

Please email and lets set this up

Bridget  avatar

Hi we are a home in England .our residents would love to share our stories, and become pen pal homes

jackie avatar

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

Julie avatar

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

Margaret avatar

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

Jasmine avatar

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.

Nadine avatar
Nadine Activity Coordinator And Carer

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

SALT avatar

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

Lorraine avatar

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

Nicole avatar

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

Becky avatar

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

Cara avatar
Awaiting approval

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

Tonya avatar

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

Rebecca  avatar

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

Fione  avatar

So good to see you all are connecting through Golden carers , Hope it goes well .

Jocelyn avatar

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!

Julianne  avatar

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

Susan avatar

Hi Julianne

Look at the suggestions from others

Work with them as a group to write a letter

Involve some school children

Cristina  avatar

Hi! Are you still looking for pin pals? I have a few residents that enjoy this.... I live in the Palm Springs innCalifornia

Isela avatar

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

Beverly avatar

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.

Susan avatar

Thank you Beverly

Natalie avatar

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.

Susan avatar

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/

Faith avatar

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

Susan avatar

Hi Faith

I hope we are better soon

Thank you for responding

Theresa avatar

WE WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO YALL'S PEN PAL PROGRAM MY EMAIL IS dequincyactivities@trustcaremananagement.com THANK YALL

Stephanie avatar

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!

Susan avatar

Hi Stephanie

Why not contact some people in this thread

Debi avatar

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!

Susan avatar

Hi Debi

Look at these comments I am sure you can find someone C here

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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

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