Ashwin Kotwal
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265 appearances
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first heard May 2020
last heard Oct 2022
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We might think about um
you know, different uh uh support groups that that may help.
We might even think about some of the functional losses that people may have when they lose a spouse.
You know, they don't, um maybe their partner was someone who used to drop
do most of the driving or do most of the the financial activities.
Maybe they just need some support to learn how to take over those tasks.
So I think there's a lot that you can uncover when you start asking about loneliness and the drivers of those experiences.
And an individualized approach is key.
Yeah, absolutely.
That
I think there are a number of amazing community level programs that are out there.
And part of Carla and my um approach to these programs is how can we connect them with our healthcare system so we know about them and we're also building the evidence base so clinicians can feel comfortable, you know, sending their patients to these programs to address complex social needs.
So this recent
paper evaluated a peer outreach program that's uh based out of Curry Senior Center, but is actually a program that's supported by San Francisco as a city.
Um, and it matches people who want help forming, you know, social connections um with peers who, uh and by peers I mean people who have shared backgrounds, similar age, maybe similar um
Uh white histories.
Um similar may need to be matched by language uh preferences.
But the point is that um they feel there's kind of a built-in connection there and they build that connection and rapport and trust over time.
And so we found that these relationships, when people were matched with peers, help people have reduced feelings of loneliness, reduced depression, reduced barriers to social.
socializing that people might might have built up over time, over many, many years.
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