United We Age Inc

Our mission is to inspire a movement where all generations of people are more aware and supportive of senior citizens with needs.

To this end, United We Age will work towards: 

• Assuring social support for people facing quality of life decline due to aging, especially people living alone.  
• Assuring that age is not a barrier to seniors participating in the online (internet) world.  
• Raising awareness and image building for senior citizens.

United We Age is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Vero Beach, Florida, established to serve the senior citizen population residing in the United States.

We are a volunteer-driven organization offering social support for seniors facing challenges due to aging, and to assist them with communications technology to improve their quality of life. To this end, United We Age offers two programs: 

•  Life Stories Program
• Aging in Place Program
• Friends for Seniors Program 

Many of us are fortunate to be living our senior years blessed with health, family, friends, and financial security. But there are millions of seniors who have little social support and are financially challenged. Our programs target these seniors in need. 

Did you know there are approximately 3 million seniors living in long-term care/nursing facilities and almost half of them do not have any family/friends visit them throughout the year?

You can help by participating in our Stay our Friends for Seniors, Life Stories and Aging in Place programs. Your support with these programs will exponentially improve quality of life for seniors in their twilight years.

We are targeting senior citizens throughout Florida and North Carolina who are in desperate need of our support. The longer these seniors live without social support and communications technology, the more likely they are to spend the remaining years of their lives lonely and forgotten. 

Friends for Seniors

Our Friends for Seniors program offers seniors social support. The program is a giving experience to make an older person’s life more special. The program is designed to befriend an older person who lacks meaningful social support (e.g., family/friends) and sprinkle kindness throughout the year.

The program allows us to bring a personal touch to seniors by directly providing them with some outside friendly contact as well as birthday and holiday cards, gifts (e.g., clothing, toiletries, snacks) and other essentials to let them know they are not forgotten and alone.

• Our purpose is to spread cheer and kindness to seniors throughout the year
• We offer a giving experience to make a senior’s life more special
• We target nursing/long-term care facilities
• We offer seniors birthday/holiday cards, and gifts from a wish list.

Life Stories

Everybody has a  history. As Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers fame) once said, "Your story is your history; everybody has a history. No one's story is exactly the same." Everybody has a History is a two-to-three page life story. Our volunteers will sit and interview the senior citizens and write their life story. We follow this outline: early years; school years; adult years; retirement years; reflection. 

Their life story can be shared with family and friends. We can also share it with the  public by placing the life story on our United We Age website. so that the life story is immortalized forever. Our Life Story program is being offered to residents at senior living facilities and any older adult that wishes to tell their story. There is no cost to participate. Our volunteers are happy to bring your story to life.

Aging in Place

Our program aims to help seniors safely stay home by providing home maintenance, hazard remediation, and safety equipment installation. Here are some of our services: identifying and correcting electrical issues, cleaning lint filled dryer vents, replacing dirty furnace filter. Identifying and correcting trip hazards in and around the home. Installation of safety equipment such as hand rails, shower rails, fall detection systems, and installing smoke and CO2 alarms in the home. Fire extinguisher placement, emergency exit plan, and emergency preparedness.