Partners

The DAPpers classes at Hattie Ide Chaffee Home serve the home's residents, families, and staff along with artists, undergraduates, and medical students from the broader East Providence Community. The class is designed to improve residents' physical health, emotional well-being, social relationships, and quality of life, while simultaneously providing families and staff a chance to relax and see the residents in a new light. The community artists, undergraduates, and medical students have become more passionate about creating, more knowledgeable about history, and more aware of the importance of caregiving from this DAPpers class.