Bloom Events and Marketing helps senior citizens with senior resource fair 

PERRY — Husband and wife duo Gayla and Joshua Germundsen created Bloom Events and Marketing, LLC, based on Gayla Germundsen’s expertise in creating community events.  As part of their mission, they organized a senior resource expo on Tuesday, Dec. 9, at the Perry Events Center. 

“[We] just want to put the information out there for not only seniors, but their children because if the seniors don’t have any resources and they need help, the children need to know what the resources are,” Gayla Germundsen said. 

Partners in attendance included Pruitt Health, Senior Living, Middle Georgia Regional Commission, Resources for Medicare and Medicaid, and the Department of Public Health. 

“We are just giving [seniors] the resources that they need and things they didn’t know that were out there because it’s not like they have the Yellow Pages anymore and they can’t look it up,” Gayla Germundsen said. “They are not computer savvy, so how are they going to find the resources?” 

With this event, Germundsen said this fair provided community and socialization, with it being more catered to the older population. 

“It’s all the things that we have gotten away from behind the screen because you have a whole generation that wasn’t raised that way and they haven’t embodied the screen in front of them,” she said. “We have to get back to face-to-face communication as building relationships in the community is so important.”

Joshua Germundsen said he had an experience firsthand around 12-13 years ago when his mother was going through hard times. He said he didn’t know where to get the resources. He mentioned he had to go to almost every nursing home in Middle Georgia to find someone who could help.  

“I didn’t have the help for her and I to get the information to us, so that’s what [we] want to do,” he said. “We’re getting everything together where if somebody calls us and says they need anything we can [provide that].” 

This event was just a soft opening, according to the Germundsens. They have a bigger event planned in February. Gayle Germundsen said there were several other businesses that couldn’t attend the expo on Tuesday but are likely to attend in February, such as the VA clinic and Moody and Associates.  

“We felt like this would be a good soft opening because people are not used to having all these types of resources,” she said. “It’s important for all of us to network, but it;s also important for them to have a space to know where to get the resources.” 

Their bigger resource fair will take place at the Miller Murphy Howard Building at the Georgia National Fairgrounds on Feb. 10, 2026. 

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