N.S. retirement homes seek Santa’s for seniors [Video]

The Berkeley retirement community is asking people to “Be a Santa to a Senior” until December 9 at one of their four locations in the Halifax Regional Municipality.

Brittany Keough Misener is the service and engagement director at Home Instead. She said they are grateful for all of the support they’ve received during the 18 years they’ve run the Santa for a senior initiative.

“It’s a huge undertaking so I have a great team at the Home Instead office and all the residents here at the Berkeley’s,” Misener said. “They help with wrapping.”

Misener works with social workers and senior centres in the community who nominate seniors in need during the holiday season. The seniors write their gift requests on a “bulb” – a tag that hangs on the tree in their Berkeley location. Participants can go to any of the Berkeley locations, select a bulb and buy the gift, …