"Dear Senior" Valentine's Day Card Drive: Senior Helpers of Polk County was Featured on Fox 13 News

LAKELAND, Fla. - Valentine's Day is all about sharing love with your friends and family, but for the older generation, sometimes they've outlived their loved ones, making the holiday very lonely. Jon Christensen and his wife Sandi are volunteers with Viste, a Lakeland non-profit that delivers hot meals twice a week to the elderly.

They mainly focus on frail elderly people who are shut-ins.

The backstory:

"It gets to be a routine, and you get to know everybody," said Jon Christensen. This year, the non-profit partnered with Senior Helpers, a home care agency, to deliver Valentine's Day cards to the seniors with their meals. The personalized cards were created in schools, businesses, churches, and more.

"I think it's going to trigger a memory for them and really take them back to the past. Whether that's receiving Valentine's from their children or these cards that come for veterans that have a personal note thanking them for their service and wishing them a Happy Valentine's Day," said Georgiana Goodson, the Community Relations Manager with Senior Helpers. 

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