Website: https://www.ageni.org
Advice and Advocacy Service: Free and confidential regional advice service for those age 50 and over. Freephone number 0808 8087575. Click here for more information: Advice & advocacy | Services | Age NI
Care and Wellbeing Services: Care & wellbeing | Services | Age NI
Connect North
Connect North is social prescribing service for adults (18+) living in the Northern Health & Social Care Trust area. Connect North aims help people find the right social, emotional and practical support close to home, improving wellbeing and reducing isolation. Click here for more information: Connect North
Shared Lives Service
Shared Lives is based around Shared Lives carers sharing their home, family and community life with an older person who needs support. Click here for more information: Shared Lives
First Connect
First Connect is operational in Northern and Belfast Trust areas, offering practical and emotional support at difficult times to those aged 65 and over. Difficult times can include bereavement which can result in feelings of loneliness and vulnerability. The coordinators within this person-centred programme offer both group and bespoke one-to-one support depending on each individual’s wants and needs. Click here for more information: First Connect Service
Staying Sharp
The Staying Sharp programme offers emotional and practical support, as well as advice, education, connecting with others and fun! It aims to support those people living in Ballymena area who have been told they have a mild cognitive impairment or diagnosed with dementia.
Times like these can impact on a person’s sense of self confidence or self-esteem and quality of life. Through Staying Sharp, we are there to support individuals aged 60 and over. We want them, and their carers, to be make sense of what is happening in their lives and to help them to make choices and access new opportunities.
What can you expect from Staying Sharp
. Emotional and practical support.
. Free benefits check to ensure you are claiming correct benefit entitlement,
. Support to complete benefit forms.
. Befriending service with support of volunteer.
. Online groups including singing for health, relaxation, reminiscence.
. Signposting to other activities in your area.
. Links with other community and voluntary organisations.
Click here for more information: Staying sharp
Living Well Moyle
Living Well’ is about people, place and purpose: the focus is on the person, understanding their aspirations and relationship with their community; the shared purpose is shaping everything around a holistic person centered and coordinated approach to improve the quality of life for people aged 18 and over; by helping them identify ways to build their self-confidence, self-determination, resilience and self-reliance; and by providing practical support to help them achieve their aspirations.
Individuals, who are living with a chronic condition, are supported by a Living Well Coordinator, who is part of the multi-disciplinary team within a GP practice, and a ‘guided conversation’ with individuals is undertaken. This enables the individual to identify their goals and, with the coordinator’s support, agree a management plan that is delivered on their behalf by statutory and community/voluntary sector services. A key element of the service is the support of a network of volunteers, to help individuals become more physically and socially active within their community.
Click here for more information: Living Well Moyle