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CAMPAIGN TO END LONELINESS
2016
...approaches to supporting older people experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, loneliness, are also included. These include social prescribing, Talk for Health, and using social media and technology.
NHS ENGLAND
2016
...rates and ultimately improve outcomes. Specifically, the guide describes: how housing can help prevent people from being admitted to hospital – by enabling access to home interventions (social prescribing), improving affordable warm homes (safe, warm housing), improving suitability and accessibility, and providing housing support; how housing can help people be discharged from hospital – through
MCELENEY Maureen, BILLINGHAM Les
2016
...and housing professionals as well as others, including the fire service; and structural prevention, bringing together the strengths and assets within and across communities, individuals and groups to ensure that available help is utilised effectively. The document also looks at how local area coordination links to other prevention models and sectors, including: ‘Living Well’ programme; social prescribing
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
2018
...that meets their specific needs. These include: first contact schemes; door-knocking schemes, targeting people at risk; formal social care assessments; social prescribing in primary care; home from hospital or admissions avoidance schemes; information about activity to tackle loneliness available through settings such as supermarkets, one-stop-shops, pharmacies and GP surgeries. The report also considers
NHS CLINICAL COMMISSIONERS
2016
...with the voluntary sector; impact of Living Well; and social prescribing to improve outcomes.
MUIR Rick, QUILTER-PINNER Harry
2015
...are: social prescribing; brokerage and integration; peer support; asset-based community development; and technology-enabled care plans, which provide people with the tools to better manage their condition themselves. The final chapter identifies five enablers of systems change to help encourage the development and wider adoption of these new models of care: finance, devolving power and integration
NHS CONFEDERATION, et al
2016
...to ‘self-care’. At the same time, initiatives such as social prescribing have the potential to greatly improve people’s wellbeing. These case studies highlight the need to look beyond the boundaries of health and social care services to the way people actually live their lives, and tailor the support accordingly
SLAY Julia, ELLIS-PETERSEN Madeleine
2016
...cancer, mental health and diabetes. They are also exploring how arts and cultural activities can be aligned with the county wide social prescribing scheme. Services developed in Kent include community-based mental health service which includes formal arts and cultural organisations, such as local museums and theatres, as well as smaller, informal arts and cultural groups, such as reading groups
GREY Andrew
2015
...people to stay out of hospital at the end of life can make a significant difference to the experiences of dying people and their families. The report makes a number of recommendations for commissioners, service providers and health and social care staff, including: commissioning the increased provision of 24/7 care in community settings, through care homes and hospices, and community health and social
COLLEY Kathryn, et al
2016
...are also likely to be stronger in remote areas, with challenges in accessing medical and care facilities. The case study work found the barriers to participation in outdoor recreation by older people are multiple and inter-related. Key categories of barriers identified in the interviews were: poor health and (im)mobility; lack of or reduced social connections; fragility and vulnerability; lack
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Practice example about how the Moving Memory Dance Theatre Company is challenging perceived notions of age and ageing.
Practice example about how the Chatty Cafe Scheme is helping to tackle loneliness by bringing people of all ages together
Practice example about how Oomph! Wellness is supporting staff to get older adults active and combat growing levels of social isolation
Practice example about how KOMP, designed by No Isolation is helping older people stay connected with their families
Practice example about a research project to develop highly personalised, playful objects for people with advanced dementia
