PBHA’s Pets as Therapy is a group dedicated to serving the elderly residents of Vernon Hall Nursing Home. Every Sunday afternoon, volunteers bring a dog from the Harvard Square area to visit Vernon Hall residents. In doing so, volunteers provide companionship to residents and enable

Vernon Hall is one of the programs of the Elderly Affairs Committee. Volunteers visit nursing home patients together as a group and entertain the elderly individuals by playing exciting rounds of Bingo and painting residents’ fingernails. There are also opportunities for one-on-one interaction through personal

Alzheimers Buddys for the Arts is one of the programs of the Elderly Affairs Committee. This program pairs students with Alzheimer’s Disease residents at Cadbury Commons, an assisted living retirement facility. Students and their elderly buddies will work on art projects together at Cadbury Commons

PBHA’s Elderly 121 is one of the programs of the Elderly Affairs Committee. One-to-one volunteers are paired with one elderly citizen (although volunteers may opt to be matched up with more than one elderly individual) with whom the volunteer visits weekly at a time mutually