Hope Hospice employee brightens holidays with gifts for New Braunfels seniors

Hope Hospice employee brightens holidays with gifts for New Braunfels seniors
Herald-Zeitung (New Braunfels, TX), 12/21/23
New Braunfels, TX—For the last six years, New Braunfels resident Julie Hubertus has played “Secret Santa” to area senior citizens, bringing smiles to their faces and brightening their holidays. Hubertus works as the medical records specialist at Hope Hospice, a nonprofit that provides hospice and community grief services. Through her job, she has witnessed residents who do not have anyone to visit them or bring them presents around the holidays. Some of them have outlived their family members or do not have any family nearby. Some of the seniors also have dementia or Alzheimer’s and resort back to childhood, Hubertus said, so seeing a Christmas gift for them is like being a kid again. ... Hubertus gathers and puts together Christmas gifts through community donations, picking a different facility each year. This year, she provided about 90 gifts to seniors at EdenHill’s skilled nursing facility.