Attention Please! Home Care Professionals Needed

The work of the Home Care aide is predicated on compassion, understanding, patience, adeptness and a willingness to care for the needs of others. The daily tasks of home management, chores, tasks that keep their environment tidy and securing groceries and making meals are the essential job functions of the Home Care professional caregivers that make all the difference in the world to the consumers served by South Shore Elder Services (SSES).

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What's on the hook?

Philanthropy starts with a desire to promote the wellbeing of others. Philanthropic action is to provide goods or resources that reach those in need to contribute to social conscience and social concerns.

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Our new location at 350 Granite St

On May 3rd of 2021, South Shore Elder Services (SSES) made a big move – from our previous location at 1515 Washington Street in Braintree to our new location at 350 Granite Street in Braintree. That might not sound like a great distance, but the move was a big one in many ways.

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Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement

I have stood at Sachsenhausen, a former concentration camp, and felt too afraid to move, too afraid to breathe for fear of disturbing the memory of those who suffered within its walls. I’ve had the honor to know a Holocaust Survivor and call her my friend. I attend a memorial ceremony every year on Holocaust Remembrance Day. I have vowed to Never Forget.

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John Lewis - 1940 - 2020

The son of sharecroppers, John Lewis was born on February 1, 1940 near Troy, Alabama. Growing up in the Jim Crow era South, Lewis attended segregated schools, passed by segregated lunch counters, pools, buses and more. He became inspired by Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, and indeed first came to their attention when he announced his intent to desegregate Troy State College (now Troy University.) His worried parents dissuaded him however, and instead he enrolled at the American Baptist Theological University, where he was ordained a Baptist Minister and Fisk University, where he received a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion in 1967.

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Couple Dancing

South Shore Elder Services is thrilled to celebrate our four thousandth SCO consumer. In honor of the tremendous growth of SCO, we are proud to feature a blog from our SCO Director, Wenda Michel and SCO Supervisors, on the benefits of the SCO model and the real successes the Care Team has helped to achieve.

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Make your Mark #Volunteer

May is Older Americans Month. This year’s theme is ‘Make your Mark.’ Older adults are our friends and family, teachers and mentors, volunteers and community leaders. They help make our communities vibrant and welcoming. As we celebrate older Americans and their continued contributions to the cities and towns that we call home, we look at some of the ways that older adult who volunteer here at South Shore are making their mark.

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SSES Nutrition Director appearing on WBZ news.

Thank you to WBZ for shining the spotlight on staff and volunteers in our Nutrition Department. And most importantly, thank you to all the Nutrition staff and volunteers who are working so hard during this crisis to ensure that our consumers get a nutritious meal every day!

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SSES Board Member Joan being honored as Board Member of the Year at South Shore’s 2019 Annual Meeting.

Joan Powers has been around Veterans for as long as she can remember. Growing up close to an Army base, she knew many of the military families who lived in town.

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