Our Purpose:

To encourage the development of meaningful relations between the students of Purdue University and elderly individuals in the West Lafayette and/or Lafayette community.

We partner students with elderly individuals in the community so they can set up regular visits with their "grandparent". We also host socials where the whole Adopt-A-Grandparent club has the opportunity to visit as a group to assisted living homes. Other activities include assisting our "grandparents", visiting them, or just calling to talk and check up on them at least twice a month.

Adopt-A-Grandparent has socials at different retirement villages during the course of the semester to meet some grandparents. The pro tempore can then assign members to pair them with a grandparent. Students can visit their grandparent in a group or solo. We have had a socials at Westminster Village and Green Tree Assisted Living and Cumberland Pointe in Fall 2011.

Dues:

Our dues are $8 per year (or $5 per semester).
Tshirts may also be available mid-year if you are interested (~$10).

Members:

We have 101 members for the 2012 - 2013 school year!
We would love to have more!

What we do:

• One Group Meeting a Month
• Host Ice cream socials
• Have Euchre Nights
• Watch away football games together
• Meet biweekly with grandparents (individual, if chosen)
• Have fundraisers to get our name out
• Play Bingo
• Arts and crafts social
• Bake cookies with residents
• Call our “grandparents” to talk
• Make holiday cards for “grandparents”