VA Compassionate Contact Corps: A Phone-Based Intervention for Veterans Interested In Speaking With Peers

The VA Voluntary Service has developed and implemented a new social prescription program called Compassionate Contact Corps which was created during the COVID-19 pandemic when in-home volunteers could no longer enter Veterans’ homes. The program targets Veterans who are lonely, socially isolated or...

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Autores principales: Sullivan, Jennifer, Gualtieri, Lisa, Campbell, Maura, Davila, Heather, Pendergast, Jacquelyn, Taylor, Prince
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8682201/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.788
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author Sullivan, Jennifer
Gualtieri, Lisa
Campbell, Maura
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Pendergast, Jacquelyn
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description The VA Voluntary Service has developed and implemented a new social prescription program called Compassionate Contact Corps which was created during the COVID-19 pandemic when in-home volunteers could no longer enter Veterans’ homes. The program targets Veterans who are lonely, socially isolated or seeking additional social connection. Volunteers and Veterans are matched based on common interests. Trained volunteers provide support by making periodic phone calls. Program referrals are made from VA providers in several clinical programs (e.g. Home-based Primary Care). To date, CCC has been implemented in more than 80 sites in the VA, with 310 volunteers, 5,320 visits, and 4,757 hours spend with Veterans.
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spelling pubmed-86822012021-12-17 VA Compassionate Contact Corps: A Phone-Based Intervention for Veterans Interested In Speaking With Peers Sullivan, Jennifer Gualtieri, Lisa Campbell, Maura Davila, Heather Pendergast, Jacquelyn Taylor, Prince Innov Aging Abstracts The VA Voluntary Service has developed and implemented a new social prescription program called Compassionate Contact Corps which was created during the COVID-19 pandemic when in-home volunteers could no longer enter Veterans’ homes. The program targets Veterans who are lonely, socially isolated or seeking additional social connection. Volunteers and Veterans are matched based on common interests. Trained volunteers provide support by making periodic phone calls. Program referrals are made from VA providers in several clinical programs (e.g. Home-based Primary Care). To date, CCC has been implemented in more than 80 sites in the VA, with 310 volunteers, 5,320 visits, and 4,757 hours spend with Veterans. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8682201/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.788 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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