Archive of: May, 2016

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  A New Day Centre For Older Residents

  11 May 2016

  We provide meaningful activities and social inclusion for people living with frailty and those needing support to minimise isolation in Stow on the Wold‬. We provide fun, companionship and a freshly cooked, two course meal.

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  Cotswold Friends Now Offer IT Help!

  03 May 2016

  In 2015 Cotswold Friends receiving funding from the Notgrove Trust to start the ‘Connect’ Programme. Connect was implemented to help our most isolated clients currently on the befriending programme with Cotswold Friends. The pilot programme was based on testing how tablet computers could enhance the connectivity of lives of older people who are vulnerable, isolated and lonely. We believed that enabling these people to comfortably use a tablet to order shopping, speak to a family member on Skype, manage banking and send emails they would benefit from purposeful activities, learning new skills and socializing as well as experience an increase in self-confidence and self-worth and a decline in loneliness and isolation.