Joseph CascianiGeropsychologist, Consultant, Public Speaking, Freelance · Podcast Host of the Living to 100 Club | Clinical Strategies for Senior Residential Settings & Lifestyle Directors | Geropsychologist | Keynote Speaker

Fostering Connection: Combating Isolation with Happy Talks with Christian Ross

4 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Christian Ross describes a membership service that sends regular phone calls to older adults. The calls ease the burden on families while giving seniors a dedicated listener for their stories, offering both emotional support and a protective layer against isolation.

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We provide social phone call memberships for older adults. Our whole goal is to take a little bit of stress off the families, to deliver joy to older adults so that they get a chance to feel seen, feel heard, talk about everything they want to talk about, talk about the stories that maybe the family is like, oh my gosh, I've heard that story 300 times. We're here to hear them the next 300. So if you like to tell them, yeah. Exactly. So we're here to listen, and we're here to also, um, I always say, even though we're here to connect, we're also here, we take, uh, another, I would say, positioning of protecting.