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Barbara Alvarez
GRI, CRS
Sales Associate, Previews Property Specialist
Cell: (732) 616-7093
Direct: (732) 332-3824
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Reading Materials
Provided to Elderly
Patients at Home
During normal times, Bridge of Books is busy donating books to
students across New Jersey. With the recent stay-at-home orders,
Bridge of Books shifted its focus to collecting books and
delivering those books to patients in the three New Jersey “pop-up”
hospitals caring for COVID-19 patients.
At the same time, Bridge of Books Director Abby Daly received a
call asking if the organization could help a senior shut-in who could
not go to the library for the foreseeable future. That’s when Daly
contacted IMA – Integrated Medicine Alliance to partner up to bring
books to IMA’s senior population.
IMA sent an email to its senior patients, letting them know that
“Since libraries are closed and many seniors don’t have e-readers,
we thought this would be a great way to safely bring books into
our patients’ homes so they did not have to go out during the stay at
home,” IMA President Dr. Roger Thompson, of Middletown, said.
To receive books, all IMA patients had to do was email Daly with
the genre, title or style of book they would like dropped off. Then she
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ceived from her recent book drive and deliver them. River Road Books
in Fair Haven also donated materials for Bridge of Books to deliver.
To date, Bridge of Books has donated more than 20 bundles of
books to IMA’s senior population.
“Even though our mission is to provide children’s books, I was
happy to leverage the Bridge of Books name and our tremendous
network of supporters to put out a call for adult books,” Daly said.
“The response was beyond overwhelming. Thinking about how
many other Monmouth County seniors are isolated right now with
little to no access to books, I reached out to IMA to see if we could
work together to get an offer to deliver books out to their senior patients.
As of today, the list of requests for books is close to 40! I was
most touched by a 92-year-old woman who shared that she had just
lost her husband, that she was down to her last book and that she
was so thrilled to get a bag of books.”
Daly continued, “While
expanding our mission
to include adult books, I
am really happy that we
an unmet need – books
for seniors. Our ability
measure of the tremendous
support we receive
from the community. In
these challenging times,
everyone needs access
to books. We will get
through this together.”
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