Creators: Students of the Cell and Molecular Biology of Aging Class Course: BIOL 5593 Cell and Molecular Biology of Aging Over the past semester, the student’s in Dr. Apfeld’s class on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Aging have collaborated with the Boston-local organization Little Brother’s – Friends of the Elderly (LBFE). LBFE is a…
Creators: The students of CHNS 3101 Advanced Chinese 1 Course: Advanced Chinese 1 This artifact consists of student reflections about on their time in service for CHNS 3101, which partnered with LBFE for Spring 2022. Students were tasked to help teach English to mandarin-speaking elderly over zoom, where they were able to practice mandarin as…
Creator: Ruo-Jie Lin Course: GBST 1030 Community Learning 2 (Lucy Bunning) This artifact demonstrates my personal professional development based on my service-learning work with LBFE. During the service-learning work, we accompanied older adults to learn to use technologies and relieve loneliness. From the experience, I learned that communication played an important role while building relationships…
Creator: Katherine Bradford Course: FSEM 1000 Connections & Decisions (Hilary Sullivan) The Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly program fosters relationships while focusing on aiding the elderly community in Boston. This friendship aspect of LBFE is vital to continuing the program as volunteers inspire and teach the community….
Creators: FSEM1000 (Sullivan) students Course: FSEM 1000 Connections & Decisions (Hilary Sullivan) This infographic gives a brief description of the service roles with each of the community partners for FSEM1000 this semester. Our course theme was English language learning and immigration, and students were able to work with a variety of populations across Boston. Through…
Creators: Zhaojie (Richard) Wang Course: GBST 1030 Community Learning 2 (Maria Tomeho-Palermino) Every semester Community Learning students are tasked with reflecting on the professional development skills they have developed through their service work. Richard was partnered with Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly this semester and he shared that it has been one of…
Creators: Aaron Gartner; Katelyn McCreedy; Nicholas Maio Course: PPUA 6509 Techniques of Program Evaluation Our group has constructed a program evaluation plan for the organization called Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly: Boston (LBFE). We have proposed an evaluation that focuses on their Digital Dividends program, as it has been recently established during COVID-19. The…
Creators: Lily Xu, Alexander Barrett, Nancy Hannon, Diamond Poomijindanon, Charlotte Yin, Kirby Chua, Hana Chalmers, & Eric Concannon Course: Advanced Chinese 2 (Wei) This artifact is a presentation that showcases a collection of reflections written by students who have participated in service-learning affiliated with ABCD or LBFE this semester. This artifact accurately paints the picture…
Creators: Maddie Szoo, Kathan Ramnath, and Delaney Vinaixa Course: 3310 Contemporary Issues in Health Care This presentation was given to our class and submitted along with an essay detailing takeaways from Little Brothers: Friends of the Elderly and the importance of digital literacy in combating pandemic-era social isolation in older adults….
Creators: Brian Chong, Ariel Mahler, and Lin Zhang Course: 3310 Contemporary Issues in Health Care This presentation was given to our class and submitted along with an essay detailing takeaways from Little Brothers: Friends of the Elderly and solutions to senior care….