flood and encourage them to move valuables to safety but felt that their limited means – posters, web information, speaking on local radio – gave them limited reach. Some Age UKs communicate through wider
most of England. Each year we provide information and advice to around 5.9 million people through web-based and written materials, and individual enquires by telephone, letter, email and local face-to-face
DWP, The Pensioners’ Incomes Series, June 2015, p 52. 23 For example, the BIBA insurance finder web site: www.biba.org.uk/CustomerHome.aspx 24 Caller to Age UK’s Information and Advice line. 25 BSA
those with a formal diagnosis of dementia. It offers a friendly place for people to meet each other, chat and join in a variety of activities, entertainment and outings. These activities can help to slow
support services that they received, they felt had the biggest impact on how they feel about life. Chat 33 shows that older people reassessed who were often lonely at the time of the initial guided conversation
elements to exercise classes, for example, by providing coffee and cakes and inviting participants for a chat after the exercise group. In the case of the ‘Men in Sheds’ group in West Cumbria, it was the opposite ... happier because I enjoy it. … It makes me breathe a bit harder. Meeting people that you know, having a chat, having a coffee. (Sarah, Leeds) 11 It is
co-researcher “An interviewer must have good communication and social skills. As a person who loves to chat, give my opinions, share anecdotes etc. it is a different situation when interviewing, one has to ... co-researcher “A local informal community centre in Whalley Range, where one could go for a cup of tea and chat. For the people I interviewed, it would need to be very local with the freedom to come and go. The
socially, turn to professionals who can assist. a. Examples: telephone hotlines, drop-in centers, a chat with a local religious leader, etc. 3. If you feel lonely, you can try to change this by making a
Participation helped raised health awareness through formal presentations by external people and informal chats amongst the older men. Participants indicated that it provided vital support, provision of connect
respecting and affirming someone’s LGBT identity and their feelings of self-worth: George likes to chat to other gay men through internet sites and therefore needs private access to a computer. Bet loves