FREE CHECK UP CALLS FOR SENIORS - CALLING ALL SENIORS

City of El Paso’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Program

Calling All Seniors Program

Free Program aimed to check up on seniors living alone

EL PASO, TEXAS – These past few weeks we have encountered SEVERE temperatures in the Sun City and we are urging the public to take action to protect themselves and others during these extreme weather conditions.

The City of El Paso’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Program – Calling All Seniors is available to assist in making sure the community’s seniors are safe.

Calling All Seniors is a FREE friendly telephone call service from one senior to another which provides a friendly visit by phone. During these calls the volunteers “check” on the seniors and make sure that they are safe. This is a great way to check on a senior who is homebound, isolated and in need of a check up call.

This service is FREE for seniors ages 55 an older that need a friendly phone call to check up on how they are doing. The volunteers that are making the phone calls are also seniors and they are matched up based on their interests, hobbies, education, background, etc. The calls will be made on the days the senior would like a “check up” phone call.

How can the community help?

Calling All Seniors depends on public awareness for its success. We hope that the public will identify and report elderly needing services. Currently over one hundred fifty volunteers registered with the RSVP are calling over 260 seniors that have been referred by agencies. The service is free of charge. It is essential that the community look out for one another, especially the seniors in our community – many of them do not have anybody to care for them and are in desperate need of assistance. A friendly telephone call, that will make sure they are safe, may be their life saver.

If you are a senior 55 years of age or older

or

know of a senior in need of this service,

please contact the City of El Paso’s Calling All Seniors Program

at 541-4025