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Volunteer peer support frameworks supporting older women living alone

Volunteer peer support is an approach that enables a supportive connection between volunteers and a sub‐set of community members with shared experiences or interests. To implement co‐designed strategies to support older women to maintain independence and optimise wellbeing in Australia, a volunteer...

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Autores principales: Green, Maja M., Lowthian, Judy A., Allgood, Helen, Ogrin, Rajna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10084035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35514274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13818
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author Green, Maja M.
Lowthian, Judy A.
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description Volunteer peer support is an approach that enables a supportive connection between volunteers and a sub‐set of community members with shared experiences or interests. To implement co‐designed strategies to support older women to maintain independence and optimise wellbeing in Australia, a volunteer peer support approach was proposed. There was limited literature describing volunteer peer support frameworks to underpin interventions of this kind; and given the increasing desire for engagement of individuals and communities, articulation of the key components of such a framework is warranted. In this paper, we define volunteers and peer support, and outline existing frameworks for volunteering and peer support. We then describe the volunteer peer support framework developed for this intervention, outlining the key requirements. This information will enable others to develop an effective and sustainable structure for peer support volunteer services.
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spelling pubmed-100840352023-04-11 Volunteer peer support frameworks supporting older women living alone Green, Maja M. Lowthian, Judy A. Allgood, Helen Ogrin, Rajna Health Soc Care Community Original Articles Volunteer peer support is an approach that enables a supportive connection between volunteers and a sub‐set of community members with shared experiences or interests. To implement co‐designed strategies to support older women to maintain independence and optimise wellbeing in Australia, a volunteer peer support approach was proposed. There was limited literature describing volunteer peer support frameworks to underpin interventions of this kind; and given the increasing desire for engagement of individuals and communities, articulation of the key components of such a framework is warranted. In this paper, we define volunteers and peer support, and outline existing frameworks for volunteering and peer support. We then describe the volunteer peer support framework developed for this intervention, outlining the key requirements. This information will enable others to develop an effective and sustainable structure for peer support volunteer services. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-05-06 2022-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10084035/ /pubmed/35514274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13818 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Health and Social Care in the Community published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10084035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35514274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13818
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