On major holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter), volunteers provide companionship and deliver nutritious meals, food packages, and flowers to our elder friends. For our more mobile elder friends, volunteers and staff serve as hosts, cooks, and drivers for holiday parties held at the Little Brother’s house in Jamaica Plain.

There are many other opportunities for volunteers and elders to get together to share good food and good times. We have a summer picnic and "Breakfast Club" meetings. We have celebrations for special days like Martin Luther King Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Rosh Hashanah, and Chanukah. We have parties with our elder friends on special days such as Valentine’s Day and Halloween.

Volunteers and staff provide valuable and essential social support while they assist elders with the tasks of daily living – escorting them to medical and other appointments, shopping, banking, getting prescriptions filled, and running errands. Volunteers also deliver food packages from the Emergency Food Pantry.

Volunteers and staff maintain frequent contact with frail elders to reassure them and check on their well being via telephone calls. If the elder is not reached after three calls, a staff member or volunteer of Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly will make a visit to their home or apartment.

Volunteers and staff advocate on behalf of their elder friends, helping them to secure needed services that Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly does not provide. These services include legal aid, housekeeping services, medical and mental health assessment, food stamps, fuel assistance, etc.