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Bristol Charity Advent Calendar 2023, day 20: Alive
Alive is a charity dedicated to improving the quality of life of older people and their carers.
Their vision of the Bristol charity based at the Create Centre is for a world where older people live lives full of joy, meaning and connection.
Alive prioritises health and wellbeing into later life, engages older people creatively through meaningful activity, trains and supports care staff to enrich the lives of older people, reduces older people’s social isolation by connecting them to their local communities, and speaks up for the rights of older people to those with the power to improve their lives.
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Alive is one of the leading practitioners in the UK of meaningful activity for older people in care.
Not only do they provide meaningful engagement in care homes, the charity provides community activity and support through their meeting centres and community gardening projects.
Alive runs a range of innovative community and care home projects, bringing art, sport, IT, gardening and intergenerational connections to older people.
“An ageing population is meeting dramatic changes within the social care sector, and the results are catastrophic,” says Alive’s website.
“It’s become all too familiar to see older people lined up in the living room of a care home, depressed, silent and staring at the television.
“Older people at home often are socially isolated and not getting the care and interaction they need and deserve.
“Care settings are closing rapidly, for minimum wage care staff work a job that requires a vast skillset, and vulnerable older people are paying the price. Care at Home agencies have rushed appointments as timetables need to be addressed.
“Care homes and agencies must demonstrate their ability to provide meaningful activity and Alive exists to address this need, through our activity sessions and care staff training and support in the community.”
Main photo: Alive
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