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03 December 2009
LinkAge Plus national evaluation report published
Pilots are effective at improving quality of life for older people
LinkAge Plus aimed to test the limits of holistic working between central and local government and the voluntary and community sector to improve outcomes for older people, improving their quality of life and wellbeing.
Its aim was to bring together the various forms of mutual help, services and support for older people at a local level in a way that adds value, building on the aims and objectives of partner organisations. The programme started and finished with older people themselves, involving them through local older people’s groups and forums to help shape, design and deliver provision. It ended with a range of services and activities in places convenient to older people, sometimes involving them in delivery itself, either as volunteers or as part of the paid workforce through LinkAge Plus employment-related work.
Some of the pilot projects incorporated befriending and mentoring interventions.
The report shows growing evidence that the right interventions at the right time can yield financial benefits and the LinkAge Plus pilots have shown how working in partnership, involving older people and delivering services that aim to give a ‘little bit of help’ with daily living, can make a difference to the quality of life for older people in a cost effective way.
Read the end of project report: LinkAge Plus national evaluation: end of project report
Read ‘The Business Case for LinkAge Plus’
Its aim was to bring together the various forms of mutual help, services and support for older people at a local level in a way that adds value, building on the aims and objectives of partner organisations. The programme started and finished with older people themselves, involving them through local older people’s groups and forums to help shape, design and deliver provision. It ended with a range of services and activities in places convenient to older people, sometimes involving them in delivery itself, either as volunteers or as part of the paid workforce through LinkAge Plus employment-related work.
Some of the pilot projects incorporated befriending and mentoring interventions.
The report shows growing evidence that the right interventions at the right time can yield financial benefits and the LinkAge Plus pilots have shown how working in partnership, involving older people and delivering services that aim to give a ‘little bit of help’ with daily living, can make a difference to the quality of life for older people in a cost effective way.
Read the end of project report: LinkAge Plus national evaluation: end of project report
Read ‘The Business Case for LinkAge Plus’
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