Senior Services
Support and services for the elderly represent a substantial element of national service, especially for those volunteers with the Senior Companion Program. Efforts are generally focused on the areas of housing, healthcare facilities, home-based services, transportation, food and nutrition, adult day care, recreation and leisure, insurance, abuse and neglect, and employment. Following are some of our most relevant resources related to this topic.
Effective Practices
- Providing telephone reassurance for senior community members
- Preventing telemarketing fraud with an RSVP call center
- Using a Vial of Life program to respond to life-threatening emergencies
- Managing a multilingual Foster Grandparent/Senior Companion program
- More effective practices on this topic
Lending Library
- Eliminating Negative and Abusive Interactions: Preventing and Reducing Negative and Abusive Responses
- Injury Prevention for the Elderly: Preventing Elder Abuse
- Alzheimer's Disease: Inside Looking Out
- More library videos on the topics of senior health and caregiving
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