Social Prescribing/Social Connection

Teresa Tam, BA, MAPS

Program Coordinator

Social Connections

Phinney Neighborhood Association

Greenwood Senior Center

Alan Siegel, MD

Co-founder and Executive Director of Social Prescribing USA

Family Physician

Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA

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Learning Objectives

By the end of this lecture, you should be able to:

• Raising awareness of negative health impact of social isolation and loneliness
• Social connection programs for supporting health in older persons
• To define social prescribing, understand why it is being utilized, and be able to appraise the evidence behind it.
• To describe how it is being piloted in the U.S.
• To illustrate ways to get involved both locally and in the national movement, to improve patient and staff care

[From the Winter 2025 Dementia Geriatric Healthcare Lecture Series]