Golden Oldies Community Care Project

Who we are

Golden Oldies vision is to make the UK a great place to grow older. We do this by inspiring, supporting and enabling in a number of ways.

Our Care Project provides a high standard of community care and support for older people. With our support we aim to assist older people to maintain healthy lifestyle, promoting dignity and independent living in later years.

We have a comprehensive range of services specially designed to meet the needs of older people.​
 

1. The “Goldelicious” café project

In January 2012, we extended our luncheon club to include catering for older people. As well as having access to a hot, nutritious, and well-balanced meal, our beneficiaries socialize while enjoying their lunch with people living in the local community.

2. Intergenerational Projects:

• Telephone Befriending is a support service programme for older people. Telephone services are provided by way of regular phone calls by volunteers to older people. The programme uses the various criteria’s for matching volunteers with older people like leisure interests. The main aim of the programme is to assist older people with managing isolation, loneliness, Inform and enable older people to attend community programmes  and maintain accurate and legible records of day to day issues of older people. The programme also helps older people in developing basic telephone skills including how to access online services, set up email addresses, use Skype to communicate with family and friends who are far away.
• Face to face befriending:  We have over the year been able to develop links with Walworth Academy, which resulted in a programme of regular visits to our Lunch sessions on Thursdays by groups of students from the school who were able to chat with our beneficiaries, help them with mobile phone issues, provide manicures and hand treatments, as well as share in learning songs which were performed at our Christmas Parties. We have also been able to maintain contacts with Walworth Academy, John Ruskin Primary school, as well as with Camberwell After School project and Camberwell School of Art for face to face befriending.

3. Digital Inclusion:

Making a Digital Postcard Digital inclusion has become a key element to all or lives from which our seniors must not be excluded. Our digital postcards project delivered over the year, successfully contributed to improving the digital skills of older people as well as reducing isolation. Participants made personalised postcards using recollected links to their favourite songs, photos, images and sayings. These digital postcards then became used as memory prompts by the elders, were sent electronically and in magnetic cards format by post, to family and loved ones far away, as a way of addressing isolation and connecting with family and friends in an innovative way

4. Recreational facilities:

We assist older people to access places of interest up and down the country. These day trips have proven to be extremely popular and extremely beneficial to the general health and well-being of our members. A programme of arranged outings and trips which last year involved visits to Margate and the Turner gallery, with 60 participants, to Kew Gardens to see the Palm house and other features involving 25 Participants and a Café visit for tea, cakes and Poetry involving 20 members.

5. Getting active

We encourage our members to get active. As part of a number of arts and leisure projects, we now offer a range of new activities:

Golden Arts dance workshops

Visual arts shows & displays

Golden Threads fashion & sewing

Gold Diggers gardening club

Goldies cooking & baking club

Golden Steppers walking club

Golden Groovers social events

6. Healthcare

We provide a range of care assistance and healthcare services at the centre:

Blood pressure checks

Blood sugar checks

Weight checks

Measurement checks

Keeping fit plans

Healthy eating advice

Hospital visits

Home visits

7. Advocacy services

We offer one-to-one administrative help such as:

Filling in forms

Passport renewals

Housing benefit applications

Council tax advice

Information & support

Liaising with family members