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Five feet in front of him sits the television, and the black phone lies isolated on the kitchen table to his left. Special to the Kansan "I've had three strokes and have been in the hospital three or four times in the last three years," said John, 71. John, who did not want his last name used, said he passed his time watching television or talking to a few friends on the telephone. A neighbor sometimes takes Clinton or Lonestar Lake to feed the geese and ducks. "Some of the ducks will even eat right out of our hands." he said. John is fortunate. He has been a member of the Senior Neighbor Program for six months. The program, sponsored by Douglas County Senior Services, 745 Vermont St., pairs a volunteer with a senior citizen who needs a stable, committed relationship in his life. Besides being a friend, the volunteer helps deal with the web of aging issues, such as death and loneliness, that often affect senior citizens. "That's what we do," said Margaret Hopkins, support services coordinator and director. "We want to offer that companionship and emotional support. That's our main goal." John said he appreciated the companionship. John said he appreciated the companionship. "I like it; they visit me," he said. "It's company, you know." Hopkins estimated that about half of the fifty seniors the program works with were unable to leave their homes. "They're real people with real problems," she said. "They need help getting the activities of daily living accomplished — getting dressed, getting enough to eat, getting to work and establishing some sort of social network around them." Both volunteers and senior citizens agreed that the relationship was a special one because participants learned from each other and relied on each other for the fulfillment of specific needs. Most volunteers will go through some personal growth in the contact." Hopkins said. "If they are open, they will be touched. If nothing else, it will help them deal with death and dying issues. On the other hand, the relationship fills an enormous emptiness for the seniors." "She's just glad that I'm willing to be there," said Senior Neighbor volunteer Jane Robinson of her partner. "It's life happening right there with her. I bring into her the things you need, and she's it. It's just my being there that's just a comfort for her." Robinson said the relationship's intensity came from the one-to-one contact she had with someone she otherwise would not have met. "The things she has shared with me have broadened my perspectives," she said. "It has helped me be more aware of senior issues and realize that there are other things going on in the generations that I don't deal with." "That's what I hope for," Hopkins said. "For one of them to say, 'Wow, you're a neat person!' It's that one-to-one personal connection I'm striving for." About one-third of the volunteers quit within the first few months because of an incompatibility between the partners or an inability to deal with the relationship's intensity. Hookins said. "It takes a special kind of courage to volunteer for a program like this," she said. "I see the whole thing as a growth process. You have to have the courage to face your current emotions." In response to the dropout rate, Hopkins created a 16-hour training program to prepare volunteers for situations they might encounter. Another step Hopkins took to minimize the loss of volunteers was a selection process to screen volunteers, she said. "On one end of the continuum there are people that have no connections," Hopkins said. "They might not have the motivation, the internal plumbing to be a volunteer. "On the other end I usually get a person who is so overinvolved that I won't take them as a volunteer. They have too many other commitments. An ideal balance for me would be someone who has a commitment to the community that could be expressed through this program, but also a personal sense of their own time."