Lori’s Hands builds mutually beneficial partnerships between community members with chronic illness and college students. During free weekly visits, students provide clients with companionship as well as assistance with tasks such as grocery shopping, picking up prescriptions, completing household chores, and navigating community resources, among other instrumental activities. As clients’ support systems and independence grow, their sense of loneliness decreases. In turn, clients provide student volunteers, many of whom are studying for careers in health care, with the opportunity to learn firsthand about the lived experience of aging and chronic illness.