CALL FOR GOOD PRACTICES
Welcome to our blog! We are collecting a list of good practices to be included in the AGORAge Caring Community Toolkit addressed to all those interested in implementing initiatives that enable the creation of caring communities in which the social inclusion of older people is given special consideration. The toolkit will be translated into four languages: English, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan, and will be freely available from June 2023.
The good practices we are gathering should be related to the following topics:
-creating communities
-counteract older adults’ social isolation
-take care of the older adult’s physical, psychological, and social wellbeing
If you want to share your good practices please send us to this e-mail [email protected] the following information before the 17th of May in one of the 4 languages of the toolkit:
- name of the practice
- brief explanation
- target
- city/country
- link
The object of the e-mail must be “GOOD PRACTICE: name of the practice”
Please check the list of good practices below. We will only include your practice in our toolkit in case there is no comparable practice already included.
Thank you for collaborating in improving caring communities!
| NAME | BRIEF EXPLANATION | TARGET | CITY/COUNTRY | KEYWORDS |
| ¿Tienes sal? | Revitalising neighbourhood life | Community of neighbours | Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia (Spain) | #community |
| Dinar en companyia | To combat the social isolation of senior people living alone by offering a place to go for a cheap daily meal | Older adults | Tarragona (Spain) | #loneliness
#socialize #meals
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| viure-i-conviure | Cohabitation between a person over 65 years old who live alone and a young student. | Older adults and university students | Barcelona (Spain) | #housing
#intergenerational |
| happy-chat-benches | Initiative whereby some benches in the city are marked with the sign ‘Sit here if you don’t mind someone stopping to say hello’ to promote chatting between people who don’t know each other | Everyone | Newcastle (UK) | #socialize |
| Radars | Initiative made up of neighbors, shops, pharmacies and health centers attentive to the daily dynamics of the elderly in their environment. If they detect any important change, they contact Radars. | Older adults | Barcelona (Spain) | #safeness |
| Open baking cafe | Promote, through cooking, the participation of the elderly in community life, to counter loneliness and social isolation and stimulate physical and mental health. | Older adults | Germany | #loneliness
#socialize #meals |
| UAF | The initiative aims to create a young-adult link (the latter as accompanying user) but going beyond the welfare perspective and supporting a logic of mutual exchange | Young and older adults | Milan (Italy) | #loneliness
#intergenerational |
| keep-in-touch | Telephone service supported by Age UK Bury Volunteers, offering Bury residents over 65 a regular call to have a chat, and answer any queries they may have | Older adults | Bury (UK) | #loneliness
#safeness |
| Duo for a job | Intergenerational mentoring: Experienced professionals in early retirement are put into contact with young job seekers, in order to give them advice and support | Experienced professionals and young job seekers | Brussels (Belgium) | #mentoring
#intergenerational
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| third action film fest | Film festival in Canada who works to change the narrative on ageing and guide an age-positive culture shift. They aim to reduce stigma and isms and build resiliency. | Older adults and society in general | Canada | #ageism
#cinema |
| LIFT | The pilot scheme, called LIFT, uses volunteer drivers to help people visit neighbors, pubs and other social gatherings free of charge. | Older adults | Ireland | #mobility |
| Radio Mouette | It is a radio project with and for older people, to give them a voice and combat loneliness. | Older adults | Bruxelles (Belgium) | #ageism
#radio |
| Portage de livres | It is a service of “home delivery” books on loan to senior
people in the neighbourhood. | Older adults and volunteers. | Bruxelles (Belgium) | #books |
| LATA 65 | Urban art workshop that teaches the basics of street art to seniors in various neighborhoods | Young and older adults | Lisbon (Portugal) | #art
#intergenerational |
| Toy | Create intergenerational learning activities to explore how this type of learning can benefit younger children and senior citizens. | Young and older adults | Different EU countries | #game
#socialize #intergenerational |
| Laboratori-intergenerazionali | Teach children values such as altruism and respect and improve the self-esteem of older adults through workshops | Children and older adults | Milan (Italy) | #mentoring
#ageism #intergenerational |
