Hugger's Creed
We believe HUGS nurture the human spirit
promoting a more positive outlook
thus enhancing the quality of one's life.
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
By volunteering with Hugs for Health your presence, compassion and gentle hugs make a difference for elders who often feel isolated, lonely and forgotten.
Other Volunteer Opportunities include Activity Programs with elders including arts & crafts, reading, playing games, gardening, holidays and special events. Email us here for details.
Become a Hugs for Health Ambassador and help establish and grow these programs in your community. Email us here for details.
Support Hugs for Health with a tax-deductible donation.
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Please take a moment to read "Growing Old".
When Doris S. Grimsley read about Hugs for Health, she sent us her poem as it encapsulates why these efforts are vitally important.
Growing Old
She welcomed me with special warmth
In her neat uncluttered room
‘Tho she tried so hard to force a smile
She wore the face of gloom.
She had always been so full of life
And it really was quite sad
That here and now, all that was left
Were the memories she had.
So we sat and talked of better times
And her eyes came back to life.
She recalled the days so long ago
As a mother and a wife.
I said how very proud I was
To call her my dear friend;
And how the world was better now
For the person she had been.
When I hugged her tight and bid good-bye
In her eye I saw a tear;
And she said, "It’s not the growing old
Or the suffering I fear."
"The thing I find most difficult
That cuts me to the core,
The world keeps slipping from my grasp
And nobody hugs me anymore."
In memory of E. Clary
and written by Doris S. Grimsley
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