HINGHAM, MA – People who live and work at Linden Ponds were busy in 2006 helping organizations outside Linden Ponds, as well as lending a hand to their neighbors and colleagues within the Linden Ponds community.

Recently, the resident life team at Linden Ponds partnered with the medical center team to sponsor the “Be a Santa to a Senior” project. Home Instead Senior Care in Norwell, Mass., a home care agency that provides non-medical assistance and companionship to seniors, provided Linden Ponds with paper ornaments that listed the first names of older people living at home or in nursing homes along the South Shore who have no families or support systems. Social workers and care managers made suggestions for gifts the seniors could use and staff hung the ornaments on a tree in the waiting area of the medical center. Many staff members brought in gifts for these local people who would otherwise have had a gift-less holiday. 

During the 2006 holiday season, people who live and work at the Hingham campus also donated a number of toys to Toys for Tots. Hundreds of toys were collected for the Hingham Police Department’s Toys for Tots program. 

Earlier in 2006, Linden Ponds teamed up with Brooksby Village and more than 30 people from the two campuses came together in October to walk in the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk 06. Together, they raised a total of $13,000.