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Encourage Seniors to Live together
Updated: Aug 10, 2013 Omar M
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Empower home health aides and social service workers to encourage seniors to rent a room to another senior. Doing so offers the advantage of making home health aides more efficient (less driving), encourages seniors to rent out their own homes to families needing space, encourages interaction amongst folks who may be more susceptible to isolation and its possible effects (including memory loss).

Consider empowering librarians and social service workers to help seniors find matches through a digital billboard equivalent. Also provide sample roommate housing agreements and moving kits (change of address for medicaid/social security)

Here's an example from SoCal of a non-profit doing this work

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Helping senior citizens find roommates
This project is made possible by the City and County of San Francisco, SPUR, the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services and the Department of Technology
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