Local
Companions and Friendly Visitors
Programs that use "friendly visitors" to call on people who are hospitalized or in another institutional setting, who are homebound or socially isolated due to disability or age or otherwise lack companionship with the objective of helping them to maintain contact with the outside world by reading, talking, listening, writing letters or performing other similar tasks.
Friendly Visitor Program
Social Engagement
Programs that provide social interaction for adults who have a low level of contact and interaction with family, friends, neighbors, the broader community and other sources of social support. Social isolation may be due to a number of factors including pandemic, loss of a spouse, living alone, death of family members or friends, retirement, disabilities, poor health, transportation issues, place of residence, low self-esteem or poverty.