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Louise Warwick-Booth; David Woodcock – Educational Action Research, 2025
Social isolation and loneliness are reported as having significant impacts on health, especially for older people. Policy concern has led to the creation of interventions to try and tackle these issues, including the funding of community-based support groups. The National Lottery Ageing Better Fund, 2015-2022 supported voluntary and community…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Social Isolation, Community Services
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Isabelle Latham; Dawn Brooker; Kay de Vries – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: This paper describes a model of "Learning to care" derived from a study exploring how care workers in care homes learn to care for people living with dementia. The "Learning to care" model is primarily informal in nature in which influences such as formalised training and organisational culture impact care outcomes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dementia, Caregivers, Group Homes
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Sandra Lyndon; Helen Moss – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
This article reports on findings from a case study of an intergenerational project between a nursery school and a residential care home for people with dementia in the South-East of England. It examines how multi-modalities support meaning-making between 3-year-old children and older adults. The study is qualitative, interpretative and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Older Adults, Intergenerational Programs