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Luminate Festival: submit your ideas now

Would you like to be part of this year’s Luminate?

Now it’s the time to think about whether your group or organisation would like to get involved. The festival will take place from 1st to 31st October across Scotland and will feature events and activities which prove that creativity has no age, bringing together older people and those from younger generations.

Each year we invite individuals, groups and organisations to put forward events for the festival programme. If your event is included, you will be featured in the brochure which is distributed Scotland-wide, and you will appear on the Luminate website and in our press and media campaign.

The deadline for submitting proposals will be at the end of June, and we’ll be sharing more details in mid-May.

For further info visit http://www.luminatescotland.org/

In the LOOPs

New local signposting service for older people

Meal Makers

Meal Makers is a charity that helps isolated older people enjoy the benefits of a home-cooked meal provided by a neighbour.

It connects volunteers of any age who have a passion for cooking and want to be active in their communities (“cooks”), with older neighbours over the age of 55 (“diners”) who would appreciate a home cooked meal. Once a cook and diner have been matched, the cook will prepare an extra meal in their own home and deliver it to their diner at a time agreed by both parties. Meal shares can occur as often as the cook and diner would like, so it might be weekly, fortnightly or just now and again. It helps improve nutrition, reduce isolation and build community links that so often have been lost. There is no cost attached to the meals, as they are a voluntary donation of food between members.

The only cost is a £5 fee for the diner to join Meal Makers for the year. Contact Robert Peacock 07710 703528 or email robert@mealmakers.org.uk

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‘Failings’ at local care at home service

Homecare Support, a care at home service contracted by the City of Edinburgh Council, has been told to make urgent improvements to in the care it provides to vulnerable people. Continue reading ‘Failings’ at local care at home service

Lonely this Christmas

People in Scotland are being encouraged to look out for their elderly neighbours, friends and relatives over the Christmas period. Social Security Minister Jeane Freeman has sent out a Christmas message, asking everyone in Scotland to remember to include older people in their festive plans. Continue reading Lonely this Christmas

Celebrations at Carlyle Court

Residents at a sheltered and owner occupied housing complex in Comely Bank were treated to a special lunch to celebrate a major anniversary in the history of the site recently. Continue reading Celebrations at Carlyle Court

‘Stage not Age’ celebrated in Older Adults event

Good health, wellbeing and friendships in later life are to be encouraged and celebrated at a free event dedicated to Edinburgh’s growing number of older people this Thursday. Continue reading ‘Stage not Age’ celebrated in Older Adults event

News from National Pensioners Convention

Older People campaign updates

Older People’s Companionship Day

Friday 30^th September

Castlebrae Business Centre, Peffer Place, Edinburgh, EH16 4BB

10.30am – 1.30pm

Free admission

Home Instead Senior Care is celebrating five years caring for older people across Edinburgh by holding an Older Person’s Companionship Day alongside the annual Macmillan Coffee Morning. The day will bring together a host of local organisations giving people a chance to meet with those helping with companionship and befriending services. Continue reading Older People’s Companionship Day

Getting out and about: a Natural Health Service?

Older people could benefit from ‘green’ prescriptions

Green prescribing by doctors and other health professionals could be a valuable way of helping older people reap the benefits of outdoor recreation, according to new research. The idea is among a number of recommendations contained in a new report commissioned by the Scottish Government to examine the barriers older people face getting out and about.

Outdoor activity has been shown to be beneficial for physical and mental health and wellbeing, but older people are less likely to take part. Continue reading Getting out and about: a Natural Health Service?

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