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Isle of Wight

Work Place Mentoring Programme

The Age Friendly Island Mentoring Programme is a scheme which focuses on supporting older people in gaining new experiences, skills and knowledge through the support of a work place mentor.

The delivery of a pilot programme in partnership with local charity Learning Links and employer Red Funnel (local transport/ferry company) was completed in December 2018. Feedback…

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Started: 2018
Location: Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Education, Labor

Older and Wiser Radio Show

Since 2018 Vectis Radio, a local community radio station on the Isle of Wight, has presented a twice monthly show in partnership with Age Friendly Island. The show features Age Friendly Island partners representing public, private and voluntary sector organisations who are all working to improve the Isle of Wight community for older people. It…

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Started: 2018
Location: Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Information and communication

Facilitating intergenerational understanding and activities

One of the elements of the Age Friendly Island Programme focuses on encouraging intergenerational understanding and activity to reduce social isolation. A member of staff is dedicated to ensuring that younger and older communities have a greater understanding of each other and how they can learn from, and support each other.

They facilitate this by hosting…

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Started: 2016
Location: Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Education, Information and communication

Dementia Friendly Church Services

Dementia Friendly Church Services have been running on the Isle of Wight since 2014. Initially Age Friendly Island worked together with St. John the Baptist Church in Ryde to look at the best way to make church services more accessible to people living with dementia and to support the needs of older people.

Dementia Friendly Church…

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Started: 2014
Location: Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Information and communication, Other

Age Friendly Island Training

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The Age Friendly training was written in January 2016. It looks to address cultural attitudes among ageing focusing on physical barriers, physiological barriers and environmental barriers. We worked with a small Task and Finish group made up of senior leads from Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue, Hampshire Police, Southern Vectis (Local transport provider), to…

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Started: 2016
Location: Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Education, Health, Housing, Information and communication, Transportation

Making GP Surgeries Age Friendly

As part of the Age Friendly Island Programme, we have been working with Tower House Surgery in Ryde on the Isle of Wight, to understand what needs to be in place to make GP Surgeries Age Friendly.With Tower House’s Patient Participation Group and the Age Friendly Island Public Forums we worked together to produce a…

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Started: 2015
Location: Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Health

Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight
United Kingdom

The Isle of Wight is working towards becoming more Age Friendly. In 2016, the Isle of Wight joined the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Network of Age Friendly Cities and…

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City population: 14000028.3 % over 60Joined Network in 2016