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To wrap up Intergenerational Week, DOROT Westchester joined our partners at the JCC Mid-Westchester for our first Intergenerational Social Action event. Over 40 volunteers, many of them new to DOROT, came together to enjoy a bagel brunch before making sandwiches for HOPE, a local soup kitchen.  Over 200 lunch bags were packed for the HOPE Pantry! […]

It’s Global Intergenerational Week! It’s never been more important to combat loneliness and isolation. This week we’re joining organizations across the world, including Generations United and the Eisner Foundation, in celebrating the power of connecting younger and older people. All week we’ll be highlighting DOROT’s intergenerational programs and the impact of intergeneration connections more broadly. […]

Each March, National Social Work Month recognizes the impact social workers deliver while providing services to people of all ages. Social work is at the heart of every program and service DOROT offers to keep older adults connected, engaged and living independently as valued members of the community. In fact, nearly 28% of DOROT’s staff […]

DOROT was excited to attend and facilitate sessions at the American Society on Aging’s “On Aging” Conference, taking place March 27-30, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. The theme of this year’s conference is is Advancing Health & Well-Being. Over the course of the week, presenters and participants learned from one another and leaders in aging through […]

As an older adult, how would you rate the overall quality of life in your community? DOROT is excited to partner with the New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) on NYSOFA’s Community Assessment Survey for Older Adults. If you are 60+, please respond by March 31, 2023 to help inform future state policies. […]

We’re excited to share that Elisabeth Stam has been awarded the “Graduate Student Research Award” from the American Society on Aging (ASA) for the best published or unpublished research paper on a completed project relevant to aging and applicable to practice. Elisabeth is a gerontologist, social worker, and current Program Analyst at DOROT and a […]

For the past 25 years, Jerry Hattem’s smile and stories warmed the hearts of many in the DOROT community. A longtime volunteer who passed away in July 2022, Jerry will be remembered for his good cheer and ability to connect easily with just about everyone. Jerry began volunteering after his mother and grandmother passed away. […]

Every Wednesday at 3:00pm, volunteer and board member Helaine Suval picks up the phone and calls Sandra, her 89-year-old Caring Calls partner and professor emeritus of dance at Barnard College, for a friendly chat. “I look forward to our weekly call as much now as ever — and we’ve been talking every week since March […]

More than four years ago, DOROT volunteer Richard Goldberg began visiting 75-year-old Gregory Sparling in his Upper West Side apartment. His Friendly Visits with Greg – pre-COVID in home, during COVID on the phone and now in the lobby of his building or in Riverside Park – have been a weekly highlight for both men […]

Are you looking for a fun, new way to connect with teens? Look no further than GENuine Connections™, DOROT’s new virtual intergenerational program launched this fall. Adults 65+ and high school students from all over New York City are joining together over Zoom in small groups for weekly brain games, sensory art and storytelling workshops, […]