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Reducing the Social Isolation of Older Adults - A Scoping Review of Interventions
The purpose of this scoping review was to assess the current research literature that describes the implementation and assessment of interventions and their associated outcomes related to reducing social isolation of older adults. The review was completed by the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) as part of the collective impact evaluation of the Reducing Isolation of Seniors Collective (RISC), a project funded by the federal New Horizons for Seniors Program. In 2015 Employment and Service Development Canada announced a call for proposals to reduce social isolation of seniors using a collective impact approach which “brings together a group of collaborating organizations from different sectors to commit to a common agenda aiming for significant changes in their community”