Friendly Visitor Program

Mission

To nurture friendship, reduce social isolation, and bring hope to
elderly persons in long-term care and to enrich the life of the
volunteer Friendly Visitor.

Services

The Friendly Visitor Program brings together volunteer visitors and frail, chronically ill residing in long term care (LTC) facilities in Santa Clara County who have no family or friends to visit them. Through its volunteers, the program reduces the loneliness of LTC residents and improves the quality of their lives. Visitors make a commitment to visit on a weekly basis for one to two hours a week.

Who is eligible for the Friendly Visitor Program?

Seniors living in LTC facilities in Santa Clara County who:

• are isolated, defined as having no more than one social visit per month, and

• have the ability to communicate with others

"Sometimes our light goes out but it is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light." -Albert Schweitzer