Activity Buddies: promoting quality of life for older people together

The SECC funding provided the project team with the opportunity to build and develop further successful intergenerational models for shared learning and research opportunities. The project continued to have the aim of developing activities to focus on improving health and wellbeing of older people in the local older people’s community that might fall into the ‘vulnerable’ and ‘hard to reach’ groups.

The project findings highlighted a positive impact on students learning opportunities to apply their knowledge within a community setting. Providing opportunities to better understand the issues related to ageing and the concerns and barriers older people might have in accessing advice, information or access to health care, activities generally. The project also strengthened working relationships with local voluntary agencies and has provided a solid foundation to further collaborative research projects being developed.