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Age and Social Isolation workshop
Margaret Moore
Joint Improvement team
and
Yvette Burgess
Unit Director, Housing Support Enabling Unit
On behalf of the Housing Coordinating Group
Objectives
• Equal Opportunities Committee: Inquiry into Age and Social Isolation – the reasons behind the inquiry
• Housing Co-ordinating Group submission
• What we told the inquiry & emerging themes
• Table talk – what is housing’s role, how does it impact your service, sharing and learning from you are doing
The Inquiry
• The first parliamentary inquiry to focus on social isolation and loneliness in the world
• The numbers of people at risk of being socially isolated or lonely are expected to increase
• An increasing ageing population who are becoming more frail and staying at home
Link with health and wellbeing
• Social isolation and loneliness have negative
impacts on people’s health and wellbeing
• “15 cigarettes a day” (Holt-Lunsted 2010)
• Link between health and loneliness: 59% of adults over 52 who report poor health say they feel lonely some of the time or often
HCG Submission
• Social housing organisations provide services to around 600,000 people in Scotland
• Often the first to notice that someone is isolated or lonely
• Symptoms of social isolation and loneliness might include inability to pay rent on time, anti-social behaviour, inability to manage the household, hoarding behaviour
HCG Submission
• Social housing across the country run a range of services that aim to connect people to their communities , neighbours and other activities
• Helping tenants to use social media and online services to stay connected
• Helping tenants to create the best home environment
HCG Submission
• The local knowledge and intelligence which housing organisations have can influence service planning in the new integrated health and social care arrangements
• Understanding the nature and impact of loneliness and the reach and contacts to find ways to overcome it
HCG Submission some examples
• The Craft Café – Cassiltoun HA
• Community Connectors – Accommodation Strategy, Glasgow
• Small Steps – ANCHO
• Allocation policies and access
• ROAR in Renfrewshire
• Men’s shed
• STAG Group – Queens Cross HA
The Stag Group
Key theme – integration of health and
social care • Social prescribing
• Interest in ALISS (A Local Information Service for Scotland)
• Need to recognise the role of the voluntary sector
• Need to commission care and support services to provide formal intervention on occasion
Key theme – environment
and access to services
• Age profile in rural areas: 23% of the population are over retirement age compared with 18% in urban areas (trend expected to increase)
• Transport in rural areas: 11% of the ‘remote rural’ population do not have access to a bus service
• Access to community transport
• Availability and type of Housing
Key theme – workforce
training and development • Promoting an understanding of the challenges
people may face in sustaining social networks as they get older eg sensory loss and impact on ability to get out and about or to communicate with friends and loved ones
• Sorts of conversations needed to identify or prevent loneliness in older people – ‘P’ cards produced by IRISS
Contact details
Margaret Moore,
Yvette Burgess, HSEU
Table Talk
How are you preventing or dealing with social isolation and loneliness in older people? What sort of partnership arrangements are you developing to do this? What more can be done to influence strategic plans at a local level to better recognise the contribution housing can make to tackling social isolation and loneliness?
