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For National Volunteer Month in April, we’re getting to know some of our incredible community of volunteers.  Meet, Michael K., a DOROT Friendly Visiting Volunteer! Tell us a bit about yourself. I am a native New Yorker and live on the Upper East Side. For work, I help manage a team for a finance-based firm. […]

April is National Volunteer Month! Join us in celebrating and getting to know our amazing DOROT volunteers. Meet Alicia Minshew, DOROT Caring Calls volunteer!  Tell us a bit about yourself. I live right here on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with my 15-year-old daughter (who is also a DOROT volunteer!) as well as my […]

April is National Volunteer Month! All month long, we’ll be sharing stories from our incredible community of volunteers. Today, meet Dale Mackey, a DOROT Volunteer Tech Coach!

Adam and Sharon are generations apart but have built a meaningful relationship through DOROT’s Friendly Visiting program. Through Friendly Visiting, volunteers visit older adults in their homes on a weekly or monthly basis.

Click below to read the full issue of Connections from January 2025.

We mourn the loss of Ted Comet, a visionary leader in the Jewish community and, in the last 10 years of his life, a cherished DOROT volunteer. 

At DOROT, we believe that social isolation among older adults is a bipartisan issue. So we were delighted to see the U.S. Senate’s Special Committee on Aging hold a hearing yesterday on ways to combat loneliness and social isolation among seniors. Led by Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), committee chair, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), ranking […]

DOROT's Executive Director Mark Meridy recently spoke at a summit hosted by UJA-Federation of New York —“The Power of Connection: Social Prescribing to Combat Isolation and Loneliness.”

As he prepares to leave office, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy has released a heartfelt, beautifully written statement that he aptly titled, “My Parting Prescription for America.”

The Washington Post shares how DOROT is leading the way for solo agers through our innovative Aging Alone Together® program. (Pictured above: Gayle Williams-Brett, an Aging Alone Together participant, and her mother in Brooklyn.) Solo agers are a fast-growing population in the U.S. DOROT’s dynamic six-week program offers the tools, guidance, and – most important […]