Resources

Published 2018.

Creating Inclusive Communities

Personal Social Care – what works for older people living in rural areas?

Published 2018. This is a background and discussion note for the Rural Wisdom project and everyone else who is interested in making rural communities work well for older people. It draws on conversations with people in the 5 demonstration areas in Scotland and Wales and what we are hearing from people in other rural areas.

People Having More Choice in their Lives

Notes and Ideas from Inverness Rural Wisdom Get-Together: March 2018

Published 2018. Rural Wisdom is a community development and shared learning project that explores the impact of community-based activities that are led by older people living in rural areas. It has been designed to benefit people across the UK. These are the notes from our discussion at our event in Inverness in March 2018.

People Having More Choice in their Lives

Published 2017. A response, from a Rural Wisdom perspective, to a call for evidence from the House of Lords committee set up to explore the issues of citizenship and civic engagement in the twenty-first century.

Creating Inclusive Communities

Notes & Ideas from Galasheils Rural Wisdom Get-together, August 2017

Published 2017. Notes from the discussions which took place at the second Rural Wisdom get-together, held in Galasheils on 23rd August 2017 - keys topics covered: Transport, Communication, Positive Risk Taking

Creating Inclusive Communities

Older people contributing to civil society

Published 2015. A discussion paper on older people contributing to civil society in Scotland, put together as part of our Wisdom in Practise project

People Having More Choice in their Lives