Resources

Gardening Tips for Older People – Groups

Published 2020. Tips for groups, community gardens and professionals to help them support older people they know and work with continue to enjoy gardening.

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Getting Enough to Drink – Food Buddies Quick Tips

Published 2020. This resource gives Tips for Getting Enough to Drink, sharing the tips and experiences of older people living with dementia, and their friends, family and carers. Food Buddies develops practical help for older people, people living with dementia and other people who sometimes have problems around food. We are trying to make life easier for people, staying safe and continuing to shop, cook and enjoy food.

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Community Connections Practical Guides, Hints and Tips

Published 2020. These guides bring together the project’s learning from the communities it has worked alongside before, during and after the COVID-19 lockdown. The guides, hints and tips can support people to stay in touch with their communities through lots of different challenges they might face in the future such as COVID-related restrictions or situations where community groups can’t meet up, like bad winter weather or lack of access to meeting spaces.

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Community Connections Highlights and Learning: Strengthening social connections and improving access to information

Published 2020. This publication describes the activities and learning from the Community Connections project. We hope it encourages people in other places to develop activities that lead to more social connections between people in their communities.

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Eaglesham & Waterfoot Community Connections Newsletter

Published 2020. A local Eaglesham and Waterfoot newsletter from the Community Connections project. It shares resources and information for residents, as well as good news updates from community groups in the area.

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Tips for making friends and supporting friendships

Published 2020. This guide gives tips for families and individuals who want to start new friendships and keep existing friendships going. It can be hard to make friends in the best of times but restrictions on where you go and who you meet makes it even harder, so our tips include online and offline spaces and Covid-19 safety.

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