siobhan sweeney
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social Isolation and
loneliness
Siobhan Sweeney
Health and Social well being
Manager (PHA)
6th December 2016
‘You go in and maybe don’t see anyone for
24 hours…. Like I do have a family and all
that, they are in touch, but talking to people,
you miss that’
(Not so cut off) Arts Council NI 2015
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Strategic Context
Programme For Government
Active Ageing Strategy
Making Life Better
Age Friendly
Community Planning
Later Years Thematic Plan 16/17
Key Objectives-
• Developing the Priority and Focus on Health and Social wellbeing
improvement for older people
• Consolidate agreed regional approach to improve the delivery of
evidence based falls prevention approaches within all 5 PHA
Localities
• Ensure older people with dementia have access to services, help
and support that will help maintain and improve their health and
wellbeing
• Develop opportunities for older people to maintain and improve
their physical activity levels
• Support the development of approaches within all 5 PHA localities
to reduce the risk of older people becoming socially isolated.
Social Isolation
• Arts and Older Peoples Programme
• Arts and Health Festival
• Developing Shared Interagency Model
Art and Older People Programme
• In partnership with Arts Council and the Baring
Foundation
• Small to medium grant funding, Artists training and
Development and training for support staff and
carers.
• Focus on Social isolation, most vulnerable and
Dementia
AOPP Geographical Spread
Area Projects
are taking place
Province Wide and involves all 5 HSCTs
Community Based Health Projects
Creative Skill building of HSC/Community staff
Number workshops to date 1,135
Number participants to date 15,116
Arts and Age ‘Here and Now’
Impact on participants
• Enhanced Life Long learning
• Reduced Isolation
• Enhanced relationships
• Increased levels physical activity
• Enhanced sense of Happiness and
belonging
If your mood is good and you are moving well
that keeps you well. But really to mix with
people, to feel you belong; if you don’t belong
to something you are isolated.
Woman aged 66 years
Not so cut off Arts Council 2015
5 Ways To Well Being
• Connect
• Be Active
• Take Notice
• Give
• Keep Learning
Developing a shared model
Loneliness
Mapping
Community
Navigator
AGE
FRIENDLY
GOOD
NEIGHBOURHOODS
For Aging Well
HEALTH &
WELL-BEING
PLANS
Models Of Developing Practice
Isolation/loneliness – What works
Systematic reviews (Cattan et al 2005; Social Care
Institute for Excellence 2011, Institute of Public Health
2016)
Campaign to End Loneliness
& Age UK, 2015
http://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/blog/promising-approaches/
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng32
Promising Approaches
1. Reaching lonely individuals
2. Understanding the nature of an individuals
loneliness and developing a personalised response
3. Supporting lonely individuals to access
appropriate services
You come in here and the camaraderie and
you feel insulted unless you are insulted at
least twice a day
Member of Men’s Shed
Thank you