Equipping the Aging Network to Address Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Elevated Suicide Risk Among Vulnerable Older Adults: A Partially Nested Randomized Controlled Trial of the BE WITH Innovation

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The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the BE WITH (Belonging through Empathy With Intentional Targeted Helping) innovation delivered to older adults improves their mental health. It will also learn about the treatment components that led to improvements. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Over the course of the 8 week standardized and manualized warm calling treatment, are mental health outcomes improved for the BE and BE + ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) treatment conditions relative to a control group? 2. Are there differential outcomes for older adults who start the treatment at low, medium, or high risk? (as defined by a baseline aggregate of measures)? 3. How is this improvement manifested for particular aspects of mental health (i.e. depression, social needs, suicide desire, and overall quality of life)? Participants will: 1. answer questions from a trained data collector to get their baseline, 2. receive 8 weeks of warm calls for 2 months (if assigned to one of the 2 treatment conditions, if assigned to control they will have the option to receive treatment at a later time), and (c) be assessed every 2 weeks.

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