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Tackling Loneliness and Isolation in Care Homes in Wales
1. Tackling Loneliness and
Social Isolation in Care Homes
Tanya Strange, Associate Director of Nursing/ Person-Centred Care
Tanya.strange@wales.nhs.uk
Claire Jordan, Lead Nurse, Patient Engagement and Education
Claire.Jordan@wales.nhs.uk
RCN Foundation Care Home Summit- 23rd September 2019
3. A Prescription for Loneliness?
2015 - 79.5 million prescriptions in Wales.
5 million were anti-depressants – more
than double previous decade.
2016 - 30% increase in anti-depressants
prescribed to children in Wales.
NHS Wales Shared Service Partnership
2017
2017 - 80.4 million prescriptions - 5.6
million anti-depressants
2017- Drugs for dementia up 1,473%.
11,000 in 2002, almost 179,000 in 2017.
4. “ A little bit of help would help everyone………”
www.FfrindIMi.co.uk
@FfrindIMi
5. Engagement
Key Questions:
Affects of loneliness/isolation and how
people currently cope?
What is already available?
What else is needed/gaps?
What the new service model should
look like?
Feedback: informed direction
‘Name the Service’ Competition
Ffrind i mi/Friend of Mine
Loneliness Inquiry 2017
6. Some Examples
“What matters to me” (feedback)
Need to ask the question!
#CountMeIn- Ffrind i Mi Volunteers
Blind date!
Website www.ffrindimi.co.uk
Bespoke Volunteer Training
Conversational BSL
Mums without Mums
Friendship Clubs
Memory Gardens
Bi-Lingual Scrabble Clubs
Job Centre/Claimants
Animal Therapy- dogs, hens
Meaningful activity- care homes
7. Residents in Care Homes
“I'm bored”
“I'm lonely”
“I feel like nothing”
“The staff are lovely but I’ve
got no-one to talk to”
“I'm fed up of bingo!”
Intergenerational
Practice
9. Intergenerational Practice
Pre-strategy
10 care homes and 8 schools
• Dementia Friends Training
• Intergenerational ‘Bake Off’
• Exclusion/Lack of Social
Confidence
• School Visits
• Digital Heroes
• Pen Friends
• Intergenerational Exercise
• Gardening/Memory Gardens
• Falls Reduction: ‘Pimp My
Zimmer’- BBC World News
• Anti-psychotic prescribing
10. • Dementia
• No family/friends
• Aggressive/resistive
• Self harm
• Sedated
• Increased falls
Intergenerational Practice
• Digital Heroes- Pigeon Racing
• 50% reduction in anti-psychotic
prescribing
• 100% reduction in PRN
• Chicken Coup/ ‘In Charge’
• School Visits/ Tuck Shop
• Diversion Therapy
• “ We now FIM rather than sedate”
12. RCN Foundation Bid
Tackling Loneliness and
Isolation in Care
Homes
At Pace!
School Curriculum
100 Local Care Homes
13. Aims of the bid
Intergenerational Strategy
Meaningful intergenerational activity in care homes
Twin 50 care homes with schools/uniformed cadet
organisations
Pen Pals (including ‘professional’)
Digital Heroes +++
Wider determinants of health training- care home staff
Dementia Friends- care home staff
Health and Social Care Books
Anti-psychotic reduction
Research
14. Progress to Date
Intergenerational Strategy and Toolkit
64 care homes twinned with 72
primary schools/uniformed cadets
11 ‘secondary’ schools
Training: Teachers and children
Care Home Staff Training
Colleges- intergenerational exercise
150+ Digital Heroes
Digital Companions
Mental Health- anti-psychotics
Health and Social Care Books
Research
15. Going Forward
More Twinning!
Pen Pals (including professional)
Strategy- sharing
Coloured Walking Frame
Anti-psychotic reduction
Book- bereavement/palliative care
nurse
Intergenerational
dining/allotments
Research
Singing for Lung Health
Need to add here about older people in care homes/sheltered accomodation- loneliness and social isolation
The evidence shows that:
Older people need a sense of purpose and feeling that they belong is important
Older adults who participate in social and leisure activities are more likely to say they feel well
Good social relationships are associated with positive health effects for individuals
Staying physically active protects health and good physical health makes an important contribution to overall well being
Being lonely or socially isolated has been associated with health problems and early death.
Isolation causes depression and makes older people more vulnerable to abuse
Intergenerational practice bridges the gap between generations and has positive impacts on well being for all who participate
Held an intergenerational conference
52 partners
10 homes twinned- challenge was to get to 50
Link work with school curriculum and Welsh Bacc
Produce an intergenerational strategy that can be adopted across wales
Objectives:
To build upon and increase intergenerational activity across nursing and residential homes to support mental (and physical) well-being
To increase meaningful activities for older people living in care homes
To reduce use of sedative medication for older people
To educate nurses in regards to the wider determinants of health
To produce a multi-organisational intergenerational strategy that leads to wellbeing outcomes for older people, children and care givers
To increase confidence and self-worth in the younger population
To educate children in regards to the caring profession and compassionate citizenship with the objective to encourage more children to choose a career in nursing/caring
To produce a child friendly career book for children
Published and shared intergenerational strategy and toolkit
Mention training in progress
Intergenerational dining- food poverty/allotments
Children- more asking to get involved
Expressing a wish to persue a career in health and social care
Older people- increased meaningful activity
Better access to the community
Sharing their skills with children e.g. cooking, gardening