Rail Fence

Janie Kassie’s mom, Carol, is a resident in the Windsor Ridge assisted living center in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Every Saturday, Janie would take Carol out for lunch and some shopping. Last month the facility had to close its doors to visitors and volunteers to protect the health of the people who live there. Janie knew Carol wouldn’t understand about her absence, and she worried about how her mom would handle the change. Then she learned Windsor Ridge had a job opening. Janie, who already works as an office manager at a financial services firm and as an events coordinator at a nonprofit organization, now moonlights 15 to 30 hours a week as Windsor Ridge’s hospitality aide. "I deliver meals and play games with the residents. I basically do whatever they tell me to do,” Janie reports. "When the residents ask me what I do there I tell them, ‘I bring dinner and joy.’”