I've been a 'member' or volunteer with Elder Helpers for I think the past 2+ years, and only once has a man, a senior (who along with his wife was looking for a person to help with doing their housecleaning) but while he was rather kindly sounding on the phone and everything, he lived just too far south from me here in Edmonton, so I politely declined when I discovered that it would take me 3 buses and a good hour just to get to their house.

That was over a year ago, and since then nobody in Edmonton has contacted me about being a volunteer. I'm probably going to take my name off of Elder Helpers because it's just not used in my city.

Sure it's free to join, but: like other dating websites, even though you can download the 'instant chat', I find with most men that not only can I NOT see their message they sent me, I hardly can respond back to them! :( The message to 'subscribe' comes up constantly when I try to. I refuse to pay for an application through Facebook, and you are very limited in what you are able to do. You also can't give out your e-mail address or other such personal information to help users find you through other means. I can't even find them on Meet Me or when I do a search on Facebook! I'm sorry now that I joined (through a friend) Zoosk. :(