AGE CONCERN YORK FURNITURE STORE
- 77, FORTH AVENUE, TANG HALL
YO31 0UA YORK, NORTH YORKSHIRE
Phone: +44 (0) 1904 411282
www.ageconcernyork.org.uk
Short profile:
Age Concern and Help the Aged are now Age UK. Information and advice for the elderly about benefits, care, age discrimination and computer courses.
Detailed description:
BEFRIENDING & SUPPORT SERVICE :The aim of the service is to provide companionship and social contact to older people either living alone in their own home or who live in care homes and have either no or few visitors. Many older people feel isolated and lonely and we try to alleviate this loneliness by matching the older person with a carefully selected volunteer who agrees to visit on a regular basis, usually once a week for about an hour or two. We recruit volunteers of all ages and from all walks of life to offer this one-to-one support and befriending service. The befriending service involves matching older people who live alone with a volunteer who undertakes to give a minimum of 1 hour a week to the friendship. There is no cost for this service
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