Home Instead Senior Care, a provider of non-medical, in-home care and companionship services for older adults, is teaming up with non-profit agencies and area retailers to sponsor Be a Santa to a Senior – a program that collects, wraps and delivers gifts to lonely and needy seniors.

Joining the area Home Instead Senior Care network to provide gifts and companionship to seniors is the Wal-Mart in Johnsburg.

“Seniors faced with medical bills and the high cost of living can find they have little left at the end of the year,” said Susan Phelan, owner of the regional Home Instead Senior Care office. “That’s not the only issue, though. Personal needs may become magnified for so many living alone with no one to share their problems.”