Community Corner
The Joslyn Center To Provide Necessities To Homebound Seniors
The center is collecting holiday gifts, along with items like toothpaste, body wash, body lotion, mouthwash and more.
Press release from The Joslyn Center:
Nov. 22, 2021
The Joslyn Center has started collecting Personal Necessities and have decorated our Holiday Giving Tree to help provide Holiday “Cheer” to frail, homebound seniors receiving daily meals through our Meals on Wheels program.
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The holidays can be a difficult time for many low income seniors as isolation and depression can often lead to mental and physical health deterioration, especially during the holiday season when many feel forgotten and alone. The Joslyn Center is reaching out to the community to solicit unused, full-size donations of items such as toothpaste, body wash, body lotion, mouthwash, toilet paper, paper towels, and other items for seniors to use in their personal care or around the home.
The Holiday Giving Tree is located in The Joslyn Center lobby and is decorated with ornaments listing the name and gift “wish list” of our Meals on Wheels recipients. Individuals wishing to participate need only select an ornament, and register their name and the name of the recipient at our reception desk. Participants purchase one or more of the gifts on the “wish list”, wrap them and deliver them back to The Joslyn Center for distribution.
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We are asking that Personal Necessity items and wrapped gifts be dropped off at The Joslyn Center by 4:00PM on Wednesday, December 8. They will be distributed the following week.
“Our goal is to make sure that no frail, homebound senior receiving meals through our Meals on Wheels program feels alone and forgotten during this holiday season”, stated Jack Newby, Executive Director. “The past two years have been especially difficult with COVID restrictions further isolating our local seniors. We want to make sure they are not forgotten during the holidays”, said Melanie Lyons, Joslyn Program Director who is coordinating this program.
For more ideas on Personal Necessity items, you may contact Mealnie Lyons, Program Director at 760-340-3220 x102.
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