'Seniors helping seniors': Florida retirees stepping in during caregiver shortage across state
Florida needs good caregivers and younger retirees are stepping in to help.
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Florida needs good caregivers and younger retirees are stepping in to help.
âLove is about doing something without worrying whether somebody is going to appreciate it or not,â said Kiran Yocom, an acolyte of Mother Teresa in her youth who later co-founded Seniors Helping Seniors. Kiran Yocom grew up in a Hindu family in India, but she attended a Catholic school and began showing up to donate money each week at the charities of Mother Teresa. âI became a beggar at a very young age. To me I was more like a Robin Hood. I would take money from the rich, and make sure to give it to the children who didnât have much,â Yocom recalled.