Quality of Life Program
30 years ago, Inez Russell, founder, and executive director started Friends for Life with one volunteer. Her goal was to help seniors without family support to age in place as …
Remembering Ida
Ida might have been our very first volunteer. I think she was 76 when she started volunteering with us. She adopted six grandmas in our Adopt a Grandparent Program. She was older than all of them. One of the ladies she adopted hadn’t spoken since she was 18 years old. Ida came by the office one day so excited to tell me she had found a way to communicate with her new friend – one blink for ‘yes’, two blinks for ‘no’.