Elder Rights Advocacy – Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme
Mission
The Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme (ACVVS) is a social-based program for people who could benefit from having a caring and dedicated volunteer make regular contact with them to provide friendship and company. This may involve face-to-face visiting, writing emails, letters and cards, connecting on video chat or talking on the telephone.
Purpose
ACVVS is for people who:
- live in an aged care home
- live in their own home and are on the waiting list for a Home Care Package
- live in their own home and receive services through a Home Care Package.
The Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme is an Australian Government Funded Initiative.
It is free to participate in ACVVS.
Volunteer Purpose
The ACVVS team matches care recipients with volunteers who have similar interests, hobbies, background and preferences.
The ACVVS team will introduce care recipients and volunteers by phone or in person and will stay in regular contact to make sure you are enjoying the friendship.
Volunteers will make contact regularly (either weekly or fortnightly), at a convenient time. You might see each other face-to-face, write letters, talk on the phone, or video chat together.
Visits are relaxed and social, focusing on conversations and having fun together. Care recipients and volunteers might choose to:
- have a cuppa and chat
- take a walk or go on an outing
- swap information about shared hobbies or interests
- watch a favourite TV show together
- do another activity that you both
Co-ordination of volunteers
Please contact the ACVVS Team at Elder Rights Advocacy on 1800 022 887 or acvvs@era.asn.au