Resource Library

The Mental Health Foundation have released a new report - “All the lonely people” – as part of Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 which focusses on loneliness. The report explores what it’s like to be lonely: its causes, consequences and the groups of people who are more likely to experience severe and enduring loneliness. It features the stories of nine individuals who experience loneliness.

This guideline, published by NICE, covers providing integrated health and social care services for people experiencing homelessness. It aims to improve access to and engagement with health and social care, and ensure care is coordinated across different services.

Published by the Greater Manchester Older people’s network, this report shares the findings and recommendations from research that was conducted to examine the housing options information for older people provided by each of the local authorities in Greater Manchester, with particular focus on older co-researchers’ experiences.

In this Appello guide, an ongoing series focused on managing the transition to digital telecare, covers when to engage your customers and how your aims with this will change at different stages of the project.

Loneliness for people in later life can be a real challenge on a daily basis. This 'how to' guide contains tips on how to look after your mental health when feeling lonely and how you can get involved in local and national initiatives to reduce loneliness.

This delivery plan, published by Llywodraeth Cymru Welsh Government aims to raise awareness of older people’s rights, tackle age related poverty, improve public services and spaces and reduce loneliness by promoting volunteering.

In this Policy Connect report, Commission chair Sir Paul Carter CBE and author Clive Gilbert discuss good practice case studies of the impact smart home technology can have. The report outlines tangible actions for government and industry to help people take full advantage of tech.

This report explains the 'doorstep' approach taken by the Ageing Better in Camden (ABC) Outreach Team to proactively find and engage with socially isolated older people that 'no one knows' in sheltered housing, including individuals who may be reluctant to access formal activities, help and support.