Supporting older people experiencing loneliness

Professor Malcolm Carey

Elizabeth Paton-Smith

Colin

Aim: To elicit how can adult social workers can support older people who experience loneliness or social isolation?

Objectives:

  1. To draw from interview data to examine and describe what practices are currently utilised by adult social workers to alleviate loneliness or isolation among older service users?
  2. To appraise the current evidence-base and analyse interpretive data to determine what reforms, if any, might improve social work interventions which seek to alleviate loneliness or isolation among older service users?
  3. To present and publish findings with a view to influencing future social work practice and policy around loneliness and ageing

Partner: University of Chester and Cheshire West and Chester

Identified Lead: Malcolm Carey

Contact info: m.carey@chester.ac.uk