Tap your own Medicare risk members to supply needed social services for peers.
Start a Medicare peer volunteer program to meet your members' social service needs: For 11 years, Elderplan Inc. has used senior volunteers to effectively and inexpensively meet the social service needs of its frail and homebound members, plus gained loads of favorable publicity and community goodwill in the process. Find out the benefits of such a program and get some tips on how to start one at your organization.
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