Help organize and coordinate events and other critical development needs.
Volunteer facilitators are professionally trained to facilitate for our support groups.
Shopping escorts help shop with an elder and provide companionship during the shopping trip. After returning home escorts also assist with storing items.
Assist an elderly or disabled person with managing their finance, by developing a budget, balancing their checkbooks and helping with check writing.
Volunteers work directly with barn staff to help feed and care for the horses and the facility. This work is suited to those interested in hands-on work with our horses, or to high school or college students seeking internships or community service opportunities. Volunteers in the equine program should be willing to commit to a…
Advocate for residents in long-term care facilities and helps to resolve their complaints and concerns.
Visit an elder in their own home to provide companionship, share interests, and relieve loneliness.
Make telephone calls to elders to check on their well-being and relieve loneliness.
Improve the lives of people who are Medicare-eligible by providing information and assistance through direct in person and over the phone counseling at community centers as well as Aging Service Access Points throughout Boston.
Assist with special projects, update databases, copy and file papers, or answer phones at Ethos.