Aging Affects Everyone, Including YOU

The physical, financial and physiological changes of aging don’t just affect the elderly community who experience these changes firsthand. These changes and the struggles that accompany them have an impact on everyone around them. This includes family, spouses, friends, neighbors and all communities they’re apart of.

That’s right, aging affects everyone, including YOU.

The condition of your neighborhood and your community has a direct impact on the aging process of the elderly. Older people typically experience higher levels of exposure to neighborhood conditions. They have more physical and mental health vulnerabilities compared to you and other younger adults, and are more likely to rely on community resources as a source of support.

Those community resources include YOU.

How you can assist the elderly in your community:

1.     Become a volunteer with Villages NW.

2.     Offer services such as housework, yard work and grocery shopping.

3.     Provide transportation.

4.     Take them to a local event provided by Villages NW.

5.     Donate to Villages NW.

Villages NW Events: http://villagesnw.org/our-villages/

Villages NW Volunteer Page: http://villagesnw.org/volunteer-2/

Villages NW Ways to Give Page: http://villagesnw.org/ways-to-give/