Hamline Midway Elders - Living at Home Program

Our mission is to enable elders to remain in their homes with independence, dignity & choice.

Hamline Midway Elders was founded in 2001 by a group of volunteers and community leaders as a neighborhood nonprofit organization that provides services to help seniors live independently at home.

The goals of our services and programs are to:

• Help enable seniors to remain living in their homes for as long as they choose by coordinating formal and informal services including transportation to medical appointments and errands, chore services, friendly visits/phone calls, caregiver support, application assistance, information & referrals, and service coordination.   
• Provide seniors and other community members with education and social interaction opportunities in their neighborhood by coordinating a variety of health/wellness promotion activities including monthly luncheons, exercise classes, chair yoga classes, library presentations, workshops such as Defensive Driving and Estate Planning, and several annual community events.

We accomplish a great deal with just four part-time staff - because the strength of our program is the generous support of over 150 community volunteers who are committed to improving the lives of neighborhood seniors.

Help Us Provide Thanksgiving!

Our fundraising goal for Give to the Max Day 2024 is $1,200 - to provide a hot, chef-prepared Thanksgiving meal for community seniors.

Hamline Midway Elders has been providing support and service for older adults in St. Paul for 23 years. We offer in-home assistance, resource referral, health and wellness programs and classes, opportunities for socializing, rides to medical appointments, and much more. One of our most popular programs is our monthly luncheon.

This year, Give to the Max Day donations will fund our annual Thanksgiving luncheon event – making sure neighborhood elders don’t miss out on a hot Thanksgiving meal this year. 

Working with older adults in the Hamline-Midway and Frogtown neighborhoods of St. Paul, we see many seniors who are living alone, with little or no family support, and many have nowhere to go on Thanksgiving. We provide a hot, full Thanksgiving meal, with all the trimmings, for around 100 seniors each year. It is not only a nourishing chef-prepared meal, but it is also a time to relax and share food and camaraderie with other seniors from our community.  Meals are delivered to those who are homebound or otherwise unable to attend in-person.

This important event only happens with donations and funding from our community – people just like you. 

A donation of $25 provides a delivered Thanksgiving meal to a home bound senior.

A donation of $100 provides the cost of live music for our meal.

A donation of $600 funds fully half of our entire meal service!