Roles for Seniors
Roles for Seniors in NORC Programs
Governance
- Advisory board member
- Program development committee member
Individual Support Services
- Friendly visitor
- Escort
- High school volunteer
- Interpreter
- Clothes mender
- Driver
- Minor home-repair person
- Mail reader
- Shopping assistant
Programmatic Activities
- Coffee hour leader
- English as a second language instructor
- Food service worker
- Peer advisor
- Lecturer
- Teacher
- Intergenerational activity organizer
- Blood pressure volunteer
- Community service provider
- Social action leader
- Computer lab/information technology support person
- Support group leader
- Entertainer
- Choral/theater director
Administration and Program Development
- Clerk
- Receptionist
- Librarian
- Writer and designer of flyers, newsletters, and press releases
Social adult day program volunteer
- Notary
- Resource acquirer
- Fund raiser
- Flea market organizer
- Handy man for the program office
- Preparer of holiday foods/gift baskets for the homebound
- Trip assistants
- Surveyor
- Floor/Block captain
- Gardener