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From YouTube: The Home Team Program (Captioned)
Description
Danielle Singley, Manager, Home Team Program, discusses the Home Program for Aging.
A
Welcome
back
to
the
time
of
your
life,
I'm
your
host
of
a
rasmussen
volunteer
support
communities,
and
this
especially
holds
true
for
the
wonderful
support
from
the
volunteers
at
the
Department
of
Aging.
To
learn
more
about
this
topic,
I'd
like
to
welcome
Daniele
singley,
the
home
team
program
manager
at
the
department
of
aging
welcome
to
the
show
Danielle
hi
Ethel.
Thank
you
for
having
me
I'm
grateful
for
the
opportunity.
Wonderful,
as
you
know,
may
is
older
Americans
month
and
it's
a
particular
meaningful
to
highlight
the
home
team
program.
A
B
Older
Americans
month
recognizes
the
many
contributions
that
older
Americans
have
made
to
this
nation
in
order
of
our
50th
anniversary
of
the
older
Americans
act,
our
focus
this
month
is
to
recognize
the
achievements
of
I'm
sorry
become
engaged
in
the
community,
actively
take
charge
of
one's
health
and
positively
impact
the
lives
of
others.
Perfect.
A
B
The
home
team
program,
in
essence,
is
a
friendly
visiting
program
and
our
mission
is
to
reduce
the
feelings
of
social
isolation
in
Baltimore
County
seniors,
who
are
homebound
and
isolated.
So
our
friendly
visitors
are
volunteers
who
provide
the
necessary
social
engagement
and
reinsurance
to
help
those
seniors
remain
independent
in
their
homes
live
longer
and
to
have
a
more
increased
quality
of
life.
So
one
question
that
I'm
very
commonly
asked
is:
what's
the
importance
of
being
socially
engaged?
What's
the
importance
of
friendly
visiting?
B
Another
change
that
might
impact
the
likelihood
of
becoming
socially
isolated
would
be
any
kind
of
social
changes,
so
that
could
be
a
loss
of
a
spouse
that
could
be
children
moving
away
and
you
remaining
in
your
home.
Perhaps
retirement
has
happened
so
the
people
that
you're
used
to
getting
up
and
going
to
work
every
day
to
see
you're
no
longer
seeing
them
which
leads
to
economic
changes.
B
Perhaps
your
resources
have
changed
your
your
money
situation,
you're,
not
making
the
money
that
you
used
to
make,
so
you
cannot
afford
to
go
and
to
the
same
clubs
or
the
same
organizations
that
you
used
to
and
so
forth.
So
because
of
those
changes,
seniors
are
much
more
likely
as
they
get
older
to
have
support
systems,
sort
of
dwindle
and
I
didn't
mention
physical
changes.
B
That's
another
thing
that
can
also
contribute
to
that,
because,
if
you're
not
able
to
get
out
and
move
and
drive
and
so
forth,
you
can't
get
out
the
health
to
see
and
visit
and
just
be
active
in
the
community
like
you're
used
to
so
because
of
those
changes.
You
know
it
really
does
impact
your
life
quality
and
a
lot
of
times
it
can
cause
mental
illnesses.
It
can
lead
to
depression.
It
can
do
so
many
things
that
really
make
it
difficult
for
you
to
keep
going.
B
Malnutrition
is
very
likely
if
you
are
socially
isolated
and
also
poverty.
You
know,
if
you
can't,
you
have
no
resources,
guess
what
you
you
can't
get
out
to
go
grocery
shopping,
and
so
many
other
things
so
anyway.
That
is
why
it's
very
important
to
remain
socially
connected
to
the
community
and
what
our
volunteers
do
to
help
the
community
and
to
help
with
the
seniors
who
experience
these
conditions.
These
life
changes
is
provide
that
necessarily
necessary
social
support.
So.
B
Well,
the
first
thing
to
become
a
home
team
volunteer.
One
of
the
very
important
responsibilities
is
to
complete
our
vetting
process.
So
before
you
become
a
volunteer,
you
have
to
become
a
volunteer
applicant
and
that
consists
of
a
formal
interview
of
formal
application,
a
background
check.
You
have
to
successfully
complete
a
background
check
and
then
complete
orientation
and
training.
B
Once
you
actually
become
a
home
team
volunteer,
though
you
will
come,
you
will,
you
will
experience
a
matching
process.
That's
when
one
of
our
field,
coordinators
from
the
office
will
meet
with
you
and
meet
with
a
potential
client,
because
I
say
potential,
because
we
have
to
make
sure
that
the
fit
is
appropriate.
B
So
once
that
happens,
usually
it's
a
grace
period
that
will
take
place
to
make
sure
that
everything
is
going
well
and
once
things
are
going
well,
we
ask
our
volunteers
to
submit
a
monthly
reports
that
will
document
exactly
what
their
visits
were
like
the
time
that
they
spent
what
they
did
in
any
kind
of
issues
and
concern,
and
that
reporting
piece
is
very
important
because,
first
of
all
it
is
the
bread
and
butter
of
our
program.
You
know
we
don't
we
don't
have
any
other
revenue
source
on
any
way.
We
can
really
know
the
end.
B
Justify
that
we
are
an
existing
program
is
if
we
have
a
time
she
come
in
from
our
our
volunteers,
but
it's
also
important
because
that's
how
we
really
pay
attention
to
the
notes
that
we
can
see
if
there's
any
kind
of
issues
that
may
have
you
know
come
up
since
we
made
the
placement,
and
so
we
depend
on
those
reports.
We
do
follow
up.
B
When
you
become
a
home
team,
volunteer
they're
issued
a
training
manual,
the
training
manual
walks
on
the
volunteers
through
all
the
expectations
of
the
program,
and
in
that
also
is
information
on
how
to
report
other
issues
that
can
be
elder
abuse.
It
can
be
any
kind
of
mental
decline
or
a
cognitive
decline
or
physical
decline.
That
may
you
know
happen
during
the
course
of
a
friendly
visit
or
over
time.
Volunteers
are
asked
to
report
that
information
as
well.
So
that's
what
the
responsibilities
pretty
much
of
a
home
team
volunteer
is
okay,.
B
Become
a
home
team
client,
they
have
to
be
a
Baltimore
County
resident,
they
have
to
be
at
least
60
age
of
years
or
more
course
they
have
to
be
homebound.
They
have
to
be
isolated
or
at
risk
of
isolation.
They
also
have
to
agree
to
our
assessment
process.
So
that's
the
first
step.
They
can
come
into
our
program
a
number
of
ways,
though
they
can
fill
out
an
application.
B
They
can
pretty
much
just
call
our
office
and
say
that
they
are
interested
in
the
home
team
or
they
can
be
referred
to
us
by
case
manager
from
a
human
services
agency.
Now
the
assessment
process,
it's
very
important
because
one
we
use
that
information
that
we
collect
to
find
the
correct
volunteer,
make
sure
that
the
volunteer
is
a
good
match
for
the
client,
the
more
information
we
have
up
front,
the
better
selection
that
we
can
make
in
terms
of
placing
a
volunteer
with
the
client
and
the
clients
always
part
of
the
process.
B
If
they
don't
feel
comfortable
with
someone,
they
can.
Let
us
know
the
same
way
with
the
volunteer
as
well,
but
in
addition
to
that,
we
always
have
to
make
sure
that
the
situation
is
a
stable
situation
before
we
actually
place
a
volunteer.
And
what
I
mean
by
that
is.
If
there
are
any
kind
of
issues,
are
concerns
that
may
make
an
environment
unsafe
for
out
of
the
client
or
the
volunteer.
We
do
try
to
find
other
resources
because
I
work
for
the
Department
of
Aging.
We
do
have
access
to
other
programs.