Sunrise View Retirement Villa & Convalescent Center

The organization I will be volunteer for is Sunrise View Retirement Villa & Convalescent Center located in Everett, WA. Sunrise "began as a private home. Licensed as the Lillian A. Abrahamson Nursing home" (Historical information from handbook). The home provides elderly a place that he or she is able to live with additional assistance but on his or her own. I will be assisting the activity directors with arts and craft projects, interactive games with the community whom reside in the home. The site is divided in to two groups one is almost like a hospital, they need 24 hour assistance from licensed nurses. The other group is pretty independent just needing a little guidance and assistance. I do not start my volunteer time until January 30th, but I can say from the interview I was able to observe some activity. Music was playing through the halls and groups were gathered in the cafeteria for lunch. As we walked down the other hall way the picture of a hospital floor with nurse staff attending the needs of the elder patients is what was seen. The smell reminded me of when I was a child and accompanied my grandma to work as she worked in a retirement home. A mix of older perfume and hospital sterile smells. To be completely honest I chose this service because they were able to work with my schedule, I am a banker and work every other Saturday. I was truly opened to volunteering at any of the service learning sites, I guess you could say they chose me because they were able to be flexible with me.

Interview with Sunrise View

I had my interview at Sunrise View Retirement Villa. An activity director was whom I spoke with and was a great person. I felt as if I was interview her. I asked how long she had worked for Sunrise View. She said when she was 3 her mom opened a hair salon in the Sunrise Retirement and she would go to work with her and the ladies taught her how to play cards. When she was a teen she was asked to volunteer and she did. When she was a young adult she was asked to be an activity assistant and she did. Then she left for a couple of years and was asked back in 2002 to be an activity director and excepted. Her mom still work's the hair salon and her grandma resides in the retirement villa. What a great story to here. It reminded me of when I was under the age of ten and my grandma worked at a retirement home. I would tag along with her to some of her shift there and found myself learning so much for the ladies that lived there. I looked forward to the visits.

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