Introduction

For our 20 time project, we (Mena and Kayla) are going to volunteer at Our Lady of Fatima Villa, a retirement home near our school. We are taking this opportunity to talk with the elderly and learn about their life experiences to better understand how life was like in generations before us. Everyone has a good story to tell, and we want to get to know these elderly and listen to their stories while taking care of them as well.
Our main goal is to use the social aspect of the 5 pillars we learned in Anatomy and Physiology class to communicate with the elderly. We signed up for visiting and writing letters to them, and hopefully through these methods of communication we will be able to get closer to them and learn about their life. We can then compare their experiences with our own, other elderly people in the retirement home, and our own grandparents'. In the end we hope to compile a journal of all the interesting stories.
Some difficulties we may encounter is that the elderly might have different conditions that make communicating with them harder. For example, they might not talk clearly, or have memory loss. Another difficulty is finding time throughout the school week to go volunteer because we might have tests or additional school work that may pile up. However, we're confident that we can work through these difficulties and ultimately achieve our goal in the end. With two of us working on the same thing, we will be able to compile twice as many experiences because we are volunteering at different times of day.