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PCA’s Senior Companion Program helps older adults thrive at home

PCA’s Senior Companion Program helps older adults thrive at home

Watch 6abc’s Art of Aging feature on PCA’s Senior Companion Program. Discover how older adult volunteers provide companionship and support that help older adults stay connected, reduce social isolation, and continue living independently in their homes.

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Senior Companions

Senior Companions

Companions provide socialization and assist with daily activities, including light meal prep, running errands and accompanying participants to medical appointments.

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What Does a Senior Companion Do?

Senior Companion Services:

Requirements to Become a Senior Companion:

Benefits to Being a Senior Companions:

  • Conversation and socialization
  • Light meal preparation
  • Assists with errands and light shopping
  • Accompanying participants to medical appointments
  • Must be age 55 or older
  • Must meet program income requirements
  • Must be able to serve 20 hours per week
  • Must pass a criminal background check
  • Tax-free cash stipend
  • Travel and meal reimbursements
  • Paid holiday, sick and vacation time
  • Paid pre-service training and four hours of continuous monthly training

Senior Companion Services:

  • Conversation and socialization
  • Light meal preparation
  • Assists with errands and light shopping
  • Accompanying participants to medical appointments

Requirements to Become a Senior Companion:

  • Must be age 55 or older
  • Must meet program income requirements
  • Must be able to serve 20 hours per week
  • Must pass a criminal background check

Benefits to Being a Senior Companions:

  • Tax-free cash stipend
  • Travel and meal reimbursements
  • Paid holiday, sick and vacation time
  • Paid pre-service training and four hours of continuous monthly training

Consumer Criteria for Receiving Senior Companion Services in Philadelphia County

Who does the Senior Companion Program Serve?

Mission: Provide older adults (age 60+) supportive volunteer companion services to help them achieve and maintain their highest level of independent living.
  • Must be age 60 or older
  • Current Philadelphia resident
  • Consumer with intact cognition and/or a consumer with a diagnosis of mild to moderate dementia
  • Consumer is willing to accept Senior Companion Services at a minimum of 10 hours each week/ at a duration of at least 3 hours each day
  • Consumer does not live in a Nursing Facility or Personal Care Facility long-term
  • Consumer is not experiencing a major decline in health
  • Able to socialize with a Senior Companion
  • Consumer and Volunteer Senior Companion match is mutually agreeable

Who does the Senior Companion Program Serve?

  • Must be age 60 or older
  • Current Philadelphia resident
  • Consumer with intact cognition and/or a consumer with a diagnosis of mild to moderate dementia
  • Consumer is willing to accept Senior Companion Services at a minimum of 10 hours each week/ at a duration of at least 3 hours each day
  • Consumer does not live in a Nursing Facility or Personal Care Facility long-term
  • Consumer is not experiencing a major decline in health
  • Able to socialize with a Senior Companion
  • Consumer and Volunteer Senior Companion match is mutually agreeable

Our Annual Impact

41 Senior companions participated in the program last year
88 Homebound Philadelphians were assisted by senior companions last year

Become a Senior Companion

Make a difference in the life of homebound Philadelphians. To learn more, call 215-422-4888.

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