Seniors · Care homes
Visits, classes and holidays for seniors.
Many Jewish seniors live alone or in non-Jewish nursing homes, and many are lonely. JEEP brings them Jewish learning, the holidays and visitors.
What we do
Classes
“The Jewish Hour”
A class on Torah and the holidays, twice a month at the Evergreen and Norwood retirement communities. Ask us about classes by phone, too.
Visits
Regular visits
JEEP’s rabbis visit seniors in care homes, and seniors who are isolated at home.
Holidays
The holidays, brought to them
The shofar at Rosh Hashanah. Matzah and a Seder meal at Passover. The Megillah and a Purim bag. Chanukah parties with dreidel and songs.
Volunteers
Five Minutes a Day for Every Bubby and Zaidy
Our volunteer program matches people of all ages with Jewish seniors.
Become a visitor →
“This makes me feel so alive.”
A Holocaust survivor in a care home, when Rabbi Fuss began to visit her. From the JEEP film.
Memories come back.
“Will you come and blow the shofar for me again this year?”
The only Jewish resident of an outlying nursing home. She calls us every week to tell us how she kissed her mezuzah and thanked G-d that she is alive.
“My grandfather always lit the menorah in our house…just like this.”
A man with Alzheimer’s, at a JEEP Chanukah workshop in his nursing home. The holiday woke up his childhood memories.
“Yes, I did, I used to love to stand near her and watch her.”
A senior in a JEEP Torah class, remembering her Bubby lighting candles. From Headlights.
Where we visit
We visit seniors at these communities, and others:
- Amber Park
- Arden Court
- East Galbraith
- Evergreen and Wellsprings
- Kenwood Terrace
- Meadowbrook
- Norwood
- Seasons
- Sunrise, Kenwood and Finneytown
Don’t see your parent’s home here? Tell us anyway.
How to take part
For families
If your parent or grandparent lives in a care home or alone at home, call or text 513-307-2386 to ask for a visit. Tell us their name and where they live.
For volunteers
Volunteers of all ages are welcome.
Know someone who needs a visit?
A parent in a care home, a friend in the hospital, a neighbor who can’t get to shul. Tell us their name and where they are.