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Friendly Visiting

Programs that utilize friendly visitors (usually volunteers but also paid hourly companions) to call on people who are hospitalized or in another institutional setting or who are socially isolated due to disability or old age with the objective of brightening their day and helping them to maintain contact with the outside world by reading

Taxonomy Code: PH-140.210

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