Keyword Details: Friendly Visiting
Programs that use "friendly visitors" (usually volunteers but also paid hourly companions) to call on people who are hospitalized or in another institutional setting, who are homebound or socially isolated due to disability or old age, or otherwise lack companionship with the objective of brightening their day and helping them to maintain contact with the outside world by reading, talking, listening, writing letters or performing other similar tasks.
Friendly Visitor Program creates connections with each other, with information, resources, and with a network of social support. The program is open to participants 60+ who live in Kenosha County and have desire to expand their social circles.
Program goals are to:
- reduce feelings of loneliness a...
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