All in the Neighborhood
Just because they live within a facility near your neighborhood, doesn’t mean they aren’t your neighbors. Our residents in senior living facilities need to feel a part of their neighborhood and entire community, now during the COVID-19 pandemic more than ever.
Introducing “Our Senior Neighbors,” a neighborhood matching effort to inspire residential neighborhoods to embrace a nearby senior living facility.
How it Works
- Identify a neighborhood leader or representative of your neighborhood
- Contact the City of Dublin’s Outreach and Engagement team to be matched with a facility in need of some neighborhood love:
- Shannon Maurer, Volunteer Coordinator
614.410.4446 or smaurer@dublin.oh.us
- Shannon Maurer, Volunteer Coordinator
- We will connect you with the appropriate Activity Coordinator or staff contact from the senior living facility
- The objective of the match is to offer outdoor décor, get neighborhood kids to send cards, organize a walk-by parade of waves to their windows, and any other creative ways neighbors can safely send the community messages of inclusion, warmth and care.
Current Senior Living Facility and Neighborhood Matches
- Brookdale matched with Indian Run Meadows
- Dublin Retirement Village memory care matched with Lowell Trace
- Dublin Retirement Village independent living matched with Post Preserve
- The Grand matched with Riverside Woods
- Glenwood matched with Tutor Time (for holiday cards from kids)
If you live in one of these neighborhoods, reach out to your community’s HOA/Civic Association to get involved. If your neighborhood is not listed, please reach out to Shannon Maurer at the contact information above to get your community signed up!
Ideas to Get You Started
Homemade yard signs! Get ideas for creative ways to make your own with minimal supplies here.
Kind cards and letters made by the neighborhood kids. Get writing tips here.
Window waves and walk-by parades! Safely space your parade participants apart and schedule a time for residents to look out their windows to see friendly faces and welcoming waves.
Collect outdoor décor from your neighborhood and donate to the facility to help add some sparkle to patios, yards, etc. Better yet – offer to help put up the decorations as well!
Make birdfeeders to hang outside resident windows for easy bird watching activities. Here are some tips.
Other creative ways neighbors can safely send the community message of inclusion, warmth and care.
