Hebrew Senior Life #3

This week in Hebrew Senior Life, Amelia and I finished our first run through of all the residential floors of the 1550 Beacon Street location! Even though we were done, Gale, Amelia and I decided to give the seniors one more chance to have their pictures done, if they missed for whatever reason.

On Monday we had a discussion about how it is half independent living, so everybody has the option to opt out if they want to. Since we were unsure of how many of these “missing” seniors are “missing” because of personal reasons vs. schedule conflictions or just that they aren’t aware that these are happening, we made a call to all of the apartments. This overall call reached every apartment telephone; informing each resident of where we were and what time we would be taking pictures until. This tactic proved successful, effective, and definitely helpful for us.

After the flow of “missing” seniors arrived to have their photos taken, we met with Gale one more time to discuss how to manage the transport of pictures, and to double check that the way we are organizing and cropping them works for her. We decided that a flash-drive, organized in alphabetical order by last name, dropped off with them early next week, would be the easiest.

The next step is obviously to create the residential book, file of life, and ID cards. We sent an email to Gale asking if she would like any assistance in any aspect of any of those three projects.

Overall, we made a lot of progress this week. Not just in taking the pictures, but in figuring out the next steps as well.