Life Visits are an award-winning innovative practice at local, national and European level. 

The interdisciplinary team of Life Visits consists of a geriatrician, health supervisor, social worker, nurse, psychologist, music therapist, legal and administrative staff, and provides home-based interventions and activities in the community. 

Home interventions 

The Co2gether mobile unit, following a referral, carries out an on-site needs assessment and co-ordinates with social services (e.g. home help, Roma community centres) the type of actions to be provided. 

The personalised approach includes meeting food needs, providing health materials and psychosocial support services as well as home improvements or the purchase of household equipment. 

Cumulative criteria for inclusion in Life Visits:

- people of all ages living on the edge of poverty or experiencing socio-economic exclusion (e.g. large families, the sick, the disabled, prisoners, Roma, unemployed beneficiaries of the Social Solidarity Income)

- persons residing in remote or mountainous areas of the Region of Western Greece and specifically in 3 prefectures (South Aitoloakarnania, South Achaia, South Ilia) and in 8 municipalities out of the 19 municipalities of the Region of Western Greece.

Interventions in the community

At the request of the social services of the cooperating municipalities, empowerment, health prevention and information actions are implemented in the community (e.g. in detention centres, KAPI, community centres, schools, universities).