Idea: Combating Loneliness and Isolation Amongst Older People

 
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What it's all about

Team v are a group of young people inspired to make positive change in their local communities. We're currently running a campaign about loneliness and isolation amongst older people. This is an issue that believe to be very important as recent estimates place the number of people aged over 65 who are often or always lonely at over 1 million.
There are 3 aspects: Talk, Socialise, Connect.
Talk - meeting older people and talking about their experiences of loneliness and isolation.
Socialise - organising a social event
Connect - raising awareness of loneliness and isolation faced by older people in the community, and asking for help.

Jo - Team v SE London has asked for help on this idea - Find out how you can help

What's needed to make it a reality

I need volunteers:
- to help organise and facilitate focus groups with older people.
- to help plan and organise a social event which brings older people together
- to help raise awareness of this very important issue.

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Comments

  • Avatar Sarah 18:52, 17 January 2012 J49 Team Hi Jo,

    Welcome to Junction49. I'm Sarah here to support you in whatever way I can with your campaign.

    I've heard lots of great things about Team v and the latest campaign looks fantastic.

    I'm not sure what you're planning yet for your social event, but you can check out this page on the site which has some ideas from other young people about intergenerational projects. I also used to run a project called Digitall which matched young people with older people to teach them computer and internet skills. At the end of the project we ran a celebration event with a Wii and all of the mentees (older people) absolutely loved it - I was completely put to shame! Anyway there' a guide here which may be useful if you wanted to do something along these lines: http://www.junction49.co.uk/public/resources/digitall/Digitall_Volunteers_Guide.pdf

    Also, a good centre to contact in London is the New Horizons centre in Kensington and Chelsea which we worked with on the Digitall project. They may be able to support you with your campaign, particularly with the focus groups. Their website details are here: http://www.new-horizons-chelsea.org.uk/nh/

    Also if you are looking for venue space at all for your social event, you may have heard of them already, but if not check out www.somewhereto.com as they can help you find the space you need for free.

    If you need any help at all, just let us know and keep us updated with how it's all going.

    I'll tweet/post about it on Facebook too.

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  • Avatar Sarah 19:02, 17 January 2012 J49 Team Sorry just realised I didn't give you a link to the page with the intergenerational ideas. Here ya go: http://www.junction49.co.uk/partner/5/digitall/ Report Abuse
  • Avatar Jo - Team v SE London 19:26, 17 January 2012 this is all amazing! Thank you so much! Report Abuse
  • Avatar Sarah 11:59, 18 January 2012 J49 Team You're very welcome :-) Report Abuse
  •   Avatar Sarah 14:21, 06 February 2012 J49 Team Hi Jo,

    Just wanted to check in to see how everything is going with the second campaign. Were they links I gave any help at all?

    Hope it's all going well so far.

    Sarah     Report Abuse
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