Adopt a Grandfriend
Meet Bea
Get to know Bea before you make the commitment of a lifetime (or at least a monthly subscription).
"Bea" Beatrice Zimmermann
79 years old
📍 Blue Ridge Senior Care, Asheville, NC
Monthly sponsorship
$45/month
📋 About Bea
Bea hiked the entire Appalachian Trail at 65 and has the photos to prove it. She now leads a seated stretching class and is fiercer about attendance than she was about summiting mountains.
Bea's Story
The following is a transcript of Bea telling their story in their own words.
“So there I am on the Appalachian Trail, mile 800 or so, and I see a bear. A HUGE bear. Must've been ten feet tall. Maybe twelve. It looked at me and I looked at it and I said 'Not today, sir.' And it LEFT. It just turned around and walked away. Some people say that's not how bears work but I was THERE. Anyway, that's more courage than anyone in my stretching class has shown. Linda refuses to do the hamstring stretch and I take that as a personal insult. We haven't spoken since the incident. I won't say what incident. But she knows.”
— Bea, 79 years old
💬 What Bea Says About Having a Sponsor
“My sponsor writes me letters every week. Last Tuesday I read one out loud at dinner and Margaret from Room 12 started crying. I win Tuesday now. I also won Thursday but that's a different story.”
🧡 Adopt Bea
⚠️ Liability Agreement & Assumption of Risk
By adopting Bea, you acknowledge and accept full personal liability for any and all damages, disruptions, or consequences that Bea may bring about to their environment as a result of this adoption. This includes, but is not limited to:
- • Property damage from competitive board game incidents
- • Emotional distress caused to other residents via superior bingo performance
- • Unsanctioned facility redecorating or furniture rearrangement
- • Excessive storytelling leading to missed meal times
- • Thermostat-related conflicts
- • Any and all feuds, rivalries, or "incidents" that Bea may instigate
- • Mysterious disappearance of communal pudding cups
Adopt-A-Grandfriend, its affiliates, partners, and the nursing facility assume absolutely no responsibility for the actions, opinions, competitive behavior, or general shenanigans of adopted grandfriends. You adopt at your own risk.
⚠️ Important Notice: Adopt-A-Grandfriend is a sponsorship program. By participating, you acknowledge full liability for any and all damages your adopted grandfriend may bring about to their environment. This includes, without limitation, interpersonal disputes, competitive game-related incidents, unauthorized craft projects, and strongly worded opinions about the weather. We love our grandfriends, but we cannot be held responsible for them.