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Home Instead Senior Care moves holiday efforts online this year

Help a senior citizen this holiday season

Home Instead Senior Care moves holiday efforts online this year

Help a senior citizen this holiday season

CHILDREN OPENING UP THEIR GIFTS. MIKE: THAT’S RIGHT, BUT SENIOR CITIZENS OFTEN GO OVERLOOKED. HERE IS HOW YOU CAN BRING SOME CHRISTMAS CHEER TO A GROUP IN NEED. EACH YEAR, THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF GRANITE STATE SENIOR CITIZENS AND DISABLED ADULTS WHO NEED A LITTLE EXTRA HELP DURING THE HOLIDAYS. AND FOR 17 YEARS, HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE HAS HELPED FILL THE VOID. JAMIE: TYPICALLY, WE CAN GO OUT TO BUSINESSES, KNOCK ON THE DOORS, PUT A SIGN UP, AND SOMETIMES WE’D DO A CHRISTMAS TREE, WHERE WE WOULD DO INDIVIDUAL WISHLISTS, AND PEOPLE CAN PURCHASE IT AND WRAP IT THEMSELVES. MIKE: BUT COVID HAS JEOPARDIZED THE ORGANIZATIONS EFFORTS. JAMIE: IT WAS HARD BEFORE, BUT NOW A LOT OF SENIOR CITIZENS ARE LOCKED IN THEIR HOME. THEY’RE AFRAID TO GO OUT, AND TO RECEIVE A GIFT, IT WOULD LIGHT UP THEIR WORLD. MIKE: SO INSTEAD, THE ORGANIZATION IS HOLDING AN ONLINE REGISTRY ON AMAZON FOR GIFTS AT BEASANTATOASENIOR.COM. ORGANIZERS SAY PRESENTS CAN MEAN THE WORLD TO A GROUP THAT OFTEN GOES OVERLOOKED THIS TIME OF YEAR. JAMIE: IT JUST, UH, IT BREAKS MY HEART. YOU KNOW WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF , CHRISTMAS, THEY THINK OF LITTLE KIDS WAKING UP IN THEIR PAJAMAS, OPENING PRESENTS, AND THAT IS A HUGE PART OF CHRISTMAS. WHEN YOU GET OLDER, SOMETIMES YOU HAVE PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS, SO YOU CAN’T GO OUT AND HAVE THAT NICE TURKEY DINNER WITH YOUR FAMILY, YOU CAN’T GO TO CHURCH, OR YOU CAN’T SHOP AND BUY GIFTS FOR YOUR LOVED ONES. MIKE: AND THAT’S WHERE YOU CAN COME I JAMIE: YOU LOG ON TO BEASANTATOASENIOR.COM, YOU ENTER THE TOWN, NASHUA OR PORTSMOUTH, AND THEN YOU’LL SEE CHRISTMAS BULBS. YOU SELECT THE NASHUA SOUP KITCHEN OR SHELTER OR CROSS ROADS HOUSE PORTSMOUTH, IT’LL HA
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Home Instead Senior Care moves holiday efforts online this year

Help a senior citizen this holiday season

As a part of the Spirit of Giving series, News 9 is shining a light on those who go overlooked during the holiday season, senior citizens. Each year there are hundreds of Granite State senior citizens and disabled adults who need a little extra help during the holidays.>> Download the free WMUR appFor 17 years, Home Instead Senior Care has helped fill the void. “Typically, we can go out to businesses, knock on the doors, put a sign up and sometimes we’d do a Christmas tree where we would do individual wish lists and people can purchase it and wrap it themselves,” said Jamie Thurston from the organization.But, COVID-19 has jeopardized their efforts. “It was hard before but now a lot of senior citizens are locked in their home,” Thurston said. “They’re afraid to go out and receive a gift, it would light up their world.”So instead, the organization is holding an online registry on Amazon for gifts at beasantatoasenior.com.Organizers said presents can mean the world to a group that often goes overlooked this time of year. “It just breaks my heart,” Thurston said. “When people think of Christmas, they think of little kids waking up in their pajamas opening presents and that is a huge part of Christmas. When you get older sometimes you have physical limitations. So, you can’t go out and have that nice turkey dinner with your family, you can’t go to church or you can’t shop and buy gifts for your loved ones.”That is where you can come in. On their website, you can find the wish list to make the holidays special for a senior citizen. From there, Home Instead delivers the items to seniors in need.

As a part of the Spirit of Giving series, News 9 is shining a light on those who go overlooked during the holiday season, senior citizens. Each year there are hundreds of Granite State senior citizens and disabled adults who need a little extra help during the holidays.

>> Download the free WMUR app

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For 17 years, Home Instead Senior Care has helped fill the void.

“Typically, we can go out to businesses, knock on the doors, put a sign up and sometimes we’d do a Christmas tree where we would do individual wish lists and people can purchase it and wrap it themselves,” said Jamie Thurston from the organization.

But, COVID-19 has jeopardized their efforts.

“It was hard before but now a lot of senior citizens are locked in their home,” Thurston said. “They’re afraid to go out and receive a gift, it would light up their world.”

So instead, the organization is holding an online registry on Amazon for gifts at beasantatoasenior.com.

Organizers said presents can mean the world to a group that often goes overlooked this time of year.

“It just breaks my heart,” Thurston said. “When people think of Christmas, they think of little kids waking up in their pajamas opening presents and that is a huge part of Christmas. When you get older sometimes you have physical limitations. So, you can’t go out and have that nice turkey dinner with your family, you can’t go to church or you can’t shop and buy gifts for your loved ones.”

That is where you can come in. On their website, you can find the wish list to make the holidays special for a senior citizen.

From there, Home Instead delivers the items to seniors in need.