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Connectedly’s innovative project, “Connect4Health (C4H)” will aim to reduce social and health inequities for low-income, isolated older adults living in under-resourced neighborhoods in Philadelphia. Aging services providers and community organizations have programs designed to serve older people, but interventions to directly affect isolation and loneliness are limited. Connectedly’s telehealth intervention does just this – their model is unique in targeting older adults at high risk of isolation. Connectedly will create a pilot project to test the viability of collaborating directly with healthcare providers as a mechanism to help isolated older adults access and benefit from their telehealth group service. Their goal is for this model to be effective in enabling more older people in Philadelphia to build social connections and improve their health by forming sustained relationships and reducing social isolation. Connectedly will create an integrated care model in partnership with acute and chronic health care providers in Philadelphia. They plan to collaborate with the health system and major home health providers that serve older residents of Philadelphia (e.g. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Medicine Home Health) by providing them with their evidenced-based Connectedly telehealth group model for older adults identified as “high risk” for social isolation, loneliness, and lack of social connection.