Spotlight on visitors scheme
A Monash University-led evaluation is aiming to reduce social isolation and loneliness in later life.
A survey of aged care recipients about their social connections is open until the end of May
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Giving you the whole aged care picture
While beneficial for all parties, the national scheme bringing volunteers and aged care recipients together to improve older people’s quality of life needs broader support to reach more lonely or socially isolated seniors.
That’s according to early findings of a three-year evaluation of the Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme across all states and territories. An interdisciplinary research team from Monash University – led by Dr Barbara Barbosa Neves and including social scientists, epidemiologists and health economists – ...
