Use Your Gardening Skills to Enrich the Lives of Seniors at Lambert House

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Many seniors and adults with disabilities want to stay in the comfort of their homes, but need extra support for their bodies, minds, and hearts. Moreover, their caregivers need a break to re-energize.

Provide a pleasant, outdoor environment to enrich the lives of cognitively and physically impaired seniors and adults.

• Work with the Activity Coordinator to schedule garden tasks.
• Work with Activity coordinator to forecast plantings.
• Interact with participants during activities.
• Provide garden up keep, plantings and harvesting.

Essential Qualifications:

• Ability to provide basic garden tasks: planting, weeding, and harvesting.
• Ability to assess garden need and communicate those with Activity Coordinator
• Open communication

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience and/or studies in horticultural
• Experience working with cognitively and physically impaired adults and senior citizens.

Program orientation and on-going feedback and coaching provided. Join a team of dedicated and fun staff in improving the lives others.

Volunteers of America Oregon’s Adult Day Services are a structured, comprehensive program designed to meet the needs of functionally and/or cognitively-impaired adults. We provide individually-planned service, supervision, social and related support services, and health monitoring in a protective setting during any part of a day, but less than 24-hour care.