Well-being Inclusion Project

Excerpt from new Services Brochure 2009 - 2010

The new Well-being Inclusion Project is part of the Community Inclusion Service funded by Leicestershire County Council Adult Social Care and is designed to encourage older people to become more independent by finding suitable activities in the community.

The project is part of the Well-being Service at JSH and is initially set to run until the end of March 2010. The area covered is North West Leicestershire, Charnwood and Melton.

All clients are referred by the Day Care Review Team and are mostly in their 60s, 70s and 80s; some receive Direct Payments to help them pay for transport and/or activity fees.

All clients are visited on referral to be introduced to the Project, and to discuss their hobbies, interests, aspirations and needs. On the basis of this visit an appropriate community activity is identified. The Project Worker is responsible for accompanying the client to the activity, introducing him or her to the organisers, ensuring they are settled in to a routine and organising sustained support for after our involvement ends.

The kind of activities involved may include dance, exercise or painting classes, social groups and clubs, walking, cycling, swimming, volunteering etc. People may also wish to access college courses, eg computer, art, language, pottery classes etc; visit the library and/or book clubs; take trips to garden centres; pursue hobbies, play bingo or keep in contact with relatives or friends.

Thus older people, who have perhaps become a little isolated, get out more, socialise and exercise. This will improve their health and well-being, social skills and independence. Those not able to get out may be eligible to be visited by a volunteer befriender.

We aim to ensure that older people have greater choice and control and improved quality of life. The project will also look to improve their emotional health and well-being, their sense of dignity and self-respect and their economic well-being. We also want to ensure they are free from discrimination.

We are building an extensive database of activities for older people in North Leicestershire to give clients as wide a choice of activity as possible. Up to July 2009, seven clients had been referred.

The Project is always looking for volunteers who can befriend an older person or accompany them to their activity.

For further information please contact Carmen Gilfillan on 01509 631771 or carmen.gilfillan@voluntaryactioncharnwood.org.uk.

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