Programs that use "friendly visitors" (usually volunteers but also paid hourly companions) to call on people who are hospitalized or in another institutional setting, who are homebound or socially isolated due to disability or old age, or otherwise lack companionship with the objective of brightening their day and helping them to maintain contact with the outside world by reading, talking, listening, writing letters or performing other similar tasks.
One of the following: seniors over the age of 60 who live at home; people of any age who are physically challenged and are receiving SSD; those who are homebound, lonely, or chronically ill; people newly discharged from the hospital, recovering from surgery or illness; OR Families, friends, and caregivers of persons in these situations.
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