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Adopt-A-Senior
Program overview
The Adopt-a-Senior program serves low-income, homebound, isolated seniors in Scottsdale. The program starts accepting donations in October and culminates with the delivering of gift bags before Christmas. This wonderful program serves two functions. First, we brighten the holiday season for so many with the generous gifts from our donors. Second, City of Scottsdale social workers and staff get to assess the growing need of our homebound seniors. This allows us to provide further services such as transportation, caregiving, house cleaning, and home delivered meals.
This program started when the Via Linda Senior Center opened in 1997. Staff members wanted to help two sisters who had no one but each other and no money for the holidays. So, they gathered some donations from City of Scottsdale staff and generous patrons. With the donated money, they were able to purchase groceries for a turkey dinner as well as some personal hygiene items, blankets, and sweaters.
The recipients of this program are referred by City of Scottsdale social workers and two home delivered meal programs. The number of recipients has risen every year. We now have over 225 seniors as recipients of the Adopt-a-Senior program. Unfortunately, the need for this program grows more rapidly than we have donations. For a list of ways to donate, click here.
For more information, please contact Zach Matz at (480)312-8455 or zmatz@scottsdaleaz.gov.
