Tag: loneliness

Charities join forces to make it a happier Christmas for older people

  • Only six weeks until Christmas but 78% of Edinburgh residents STILL haven’t made plans for the big day
  • New research from Contact the Elderly highlights ‘Christmas anxiety’ is a common festive issue

Despite Christmas Day being only six weeks away, more than three quarters of Edinburgh residents still don’t know how they plan on spending the day, as a new survey reveals that a quarter of us feel anxious and worry about making plans for the festive period. Continue reading Charities join forces to make it a happier Christmas for older people

£20 million investment to tackle loneliness

  • Funding will support charities and community groups to bring people together
  • The money will go to support programmes that are proven to benefit individuals and society
  • Hundreds of thousands of people will be helped to make connections in their communities

Charities and community groups will get £20 million of new funding to help isolated people and those suffering from loneliness, Prime Minister Theresa May announced yesterday. The funding will go to support and expand programmes that bring people together and are proving to benefit communities. Continue reading £20 million investment to tackle loneliness

Hearing the voice of older people

“They never listen to the auld folk, son. We’re invisible.”

Earlier this month eighty older people from groups spread across the community got together in Royston Wardieburn Community Centre for a day of conversation, activities and entertainment. Continue reading Hearing the voice of older people

Getting together, making a difference: free event for North Edinburgh’s older people

MONDAY 16th APRIL 10am – 2pm

Royston Wardieburn Community Centre

Come and join us!

Only the Lonely: Forth 1 urges listeners to befriend vulnerable local people

Loneliness is estimated to kill more people than obesity and according to experts is as damaging to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. To help combat this, Forth 1 is calling on the local community to sign up as befrienders and support some of society’s loneliest individuals with the launch of its campaign #TaketheTime. Continue reading Only the Lonely: Forth 1 urges listeners to befriend vulnerable local people

Do we really care? Charity exposes scandal of 15 minute visits

“No one should have to choose between going to the toilet or having a cup of tea, and this practice must come to an end”

Damning figures from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request have shown that a third of Scottish councils commissioned fifteen minute visits for the provision of personal care in 2016/17. Continue reading Do we really care? Charity exposes scandal of 15 minute visits