Engage As You Age Activity Specialist Stacey Palevsky recently wrote about her experience working for us. By day Stacey writes for J, The Jewish Weekly of Northern California. One evening a week she works for us by visiting an 83-year-old elder woman named Selma that lives in an assisted living facility in the Sunset district of San Francisco. Stacey is one of many fabulous people that Engage As You Age has paired up with seniors throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

Stacey writes that she wasn’t randomly paired with Selma but that “We are a great fit for one another.” She adds that “I bring the outside into her apartment, along with news articles that she can no longer read on her own, positive energy and a youthful outlook.” That’s exactly the goal of what we do.

Selma is unable to participate in many of the facility’s group activities that require residents to have good vision. Selma has macular degeneration and has difficulty reading. She’s also very lonely as there aren’t many people in the facility that share her love of politics and history. Selma also isn’t a fan of bingo and arts and crafts which are often the bread and butter of many assisted living facility activity plans.

Click here to read the article that Stacey wrote about her Tuesday visits with Selma.
Click here if you’d like to learn how you can get paired up like Stacey has been. It’s an extremely rewarding part-time experience. We currently work with seniors in San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Marin and Contra Costa counties.

Below is a photograph that we recently took of Stacey and Selma during one of their visits.