Professor Malcolm Carey
Elizabeth Paton-Smith
Colin
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Aim: To elicit how can adult social workers can support older people who experience loneliness or social isolation?
Objectives:
- 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?
- 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?
- 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