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Penpals in aged care

To help alleviate loneliness in aged care facilities, I'm suggesting a penpal arrangement that could operate among people living in Salvation Army facilities. This would mean finding out who would like to correspond with a penpal (snail mail, or possibly email) and any characteristics they would like their penpal(s) to have (e.g. male or female, special interests), drawing up lists for each facility, then matching residents to compatible penpals so that they can keep in touch. We could also...

by Fay Foster
4 months ago

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Open Ideas/S2 - Dec19-Jan20

Have a weekly adults group happening? Use it to support community work.

by Fay Foster
Oct 14, 2019

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Open Ideas/S2 - Dec19-Jan20

Good Friends to aged care facility residents

40% of residents in aged care facilities never have a visitor. NEVER. I recently heard a presentation on Kids Hope Aus. In this initiative, local churches partner with local primary schools. Adults are given initial training, then assigned a student who they visit at school for one hour per week. This time is spent doing whatever the student would like to do. When the child asks, 'I guess you are going to see someone else now', they are told, 'No, I'm just here to see you.' I believe...

by Fay Foster
Oct 14, 2019

Hi Flash, could you please give me a little more information? Where would you envisage the accommodation would be? And does this mean that participants would need to move overseas for employment? And is there a chef already lined up to help? Thanks heaps for this!

Love it, great idea Cathryn!

This looks great Maree! Well done!

Wow David, this is an ambitious plan! I'd love to see it become reality but I think the costs would be huge - when you factor in rent, wages, training and education, counselling, financial planning, church purchase or rent, running church services/activities.
I'm definitely not saying don't go for it - just that the financial considerations would need to be addressed frirst.

I would support pet care being included in personal leave - but not as extra days.

Definitely. Maybe a small business that contracts the men to deliver services such as lawn mowing, yard care, bicycle repairs, lawn mower repairs etc. And maybe building wooden items that could be sold online - e.g. in Facebook's Marketplace.
There used to be an organisation called the Grey Army that did service delivery like this - not sure whether it's still going - but it could be worth checking out how they ran the group.

True. It's a great idea that could be adapted for other language groups.

Great idea. Maybe users of this service could also be offered English language classes in the hope that this would lessen the users' disadvantage in the future.

This would be great accompanied by a letter saying something like, 'Thank you so much for your kind support. We would love to support you too, so if we can help in any way, please don't hesitate to contact us. Contact numbers for our local services can be found on the enclosed postcard.'