Housebound Service
Delivering books on request to peoples’ homes.
Radio Campaign Keep Well
Radio campaign promoting partners like ALONE, Citizens Information, Munitir na Tire, JIGSAW and the TCC Keep Well site
Regional Positive Ageing Week
Regional Positive Ageing online festival capturing content for Health and Wellbeing, Information and cultural showcasing for Positive Ageing Week 2020
Age Friendly Keep Well Booklets
Age Friendly Information produced during COVID 19, targeting isolated older people who did not have access to online information or supports.
Here Am I – A Collaborative Arts and Online Communication Programme
Here Am I is a collaborative arts and online communication programme, which has supported older people impacted by isolation in Galway City to make their own self-expressive film and sound projects during Covid-19 restrictions. The programme also provided a light-hearted and supportive social outlet for people to learn basic online communication skills (Zoom, Email and WhatsApp) while engaging in creative practices.
Understand Together
Increasing Dementia Awareness across the county and striving to make Tipperary Dementia inclusive
Move Well Project
Meath LSP provided older people with a physical resource (DVD/USB) that they could use in their own homes.
Christmas Dinner Delivered to older adults
On Christmas Day our local volunteer service delivered Christmas Dinners to Older adults in the community
Tale-a-Phone Exchange
Traditional storytelling by phone
Over 55’s Social Prescribing D15
Social prescribing for those aged over 55 living in the D15 area
Dog walking for cocooners
Dog walking for cocooners – Wexford County Council and Wexford PPN in partnership with North Wexford Society Prevention of Cruelty to Animals offered dog walking services for members of the public who owned dogs but were unable to walk them as cocooning in the early part of the pandemic. Volunteers from NWSPCA waled dogs for these older and vulnerable people.
Kildare Covid Notebook Project
The Kildare Covid Notebook Project All the notebooks were identical but that’s where the similarities ended. This project was aimed at older people and those cocooning in Kildare. In March 2020 over 140 moleskin notebooks were delivered to homes throughout the county by Kildare County Council who encouraged participants to share their reflections, artwork, and stories throughout the lockdown with the intention that the diaries would eventually become part of a permanent archive for the county. The notebooks were returned for digital scanning and reveal a treasure trove of lockdown memories. Funding was secured from Creative Ireland to make ‘The Covid Diaries’ short film which was shot by David C Lynch.
Read Together online book clubs for adults
Three online book clubs for adults were established, hosted by a local author and facilitated by Galway Public Library service.
Community Resilience Eating Well Packs
Cooking Demonstration including Healthy Eating Advice and Eating Well Packs delivered through the Kilkenny Library Service
Winter care packages
500 winter care packages delivered
Activator Pole Programme
Laois Sports Partnership deliver an activator pole (Nordic walking sticks) programme to older people in the county. Implementation of level 5 restrictions meant this had to go online. Participants don’t own their own poles and there was no practical way for Laois Sports Partnership to loan their poles out. So the Laois Age Friendly Programme purchased 50 pairs to be given to older people interested in the programme.
21 Day Walking Challenge
21 Day Walking Challenge was designed to help older adults to get out walking and to take note of the amount of minutes/steps they walked per day. It was designed to motivate people to get out walking but to also educate people on the amount of steps or minute they are exercising per day to help encourage people to do the minimum daily exercise or more.
My Home Place
An Initiative that connects younger and older generations through radio programming, art, imagery, heritage and local history
Befriending Services during Covid
Clare Co. Council supported partners through the Community Resilience Fund to provide vital befriending services during Covid.
The Tonic
The Radio Programme is targeted at the older generation and made in collabouration with KCLR and the Older Person’s Council.
Socially distance music events for the elderly
Outdoor music events for the elderly
Tipp Active Bodies
As part of this action, older people supported as they age to maintain, improve or manage their physical and mental health and wellbeing by providing suitable and adapted opportunities for both the older adult themselves to be active and also providing training to service providers to lead physical activity in their care settings.
dlr Age Friendly Magazine Winter 2020/2021
The dlr Age Friendly Programme have produced the first edition of an Age Friendly Magazine which aims to inform, support, engage and entertain this winter as we live under Covid 19 restrictions. This new resource is targeted at our older population who have been left particularly vulnerable and isolated during these difficult times.
From a Distance Virtual Concert Series
The Cultural Companions Programme led by Age Friendly Clare, has created a series of Virtual Concerts being broadcast live every Sunday afternoon over 5 weeks in the run up to Christmas. The concerts covered 5 different genres of music to appeal to everyone.