Tower Hamlets, the borough with the highest rates of loneliness. is attempting to tackle the issue.
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The event is called ‘A strategy for improving the experience of growing older in our borough: 2017 to 2020’.
It outlines four priority areas, which the strategy hopes to help, including communities, health, employment, and developing integration.
Tower Hamlets is the borough with the highest number of people aged over 65 who are suffering from loneliness.
Their aim is to enhance the health, wellbeing and quality of life of people growing older in Tower Hamlets.
The Tower Hamlets Public Health team was to ensure that the borough is one where growing older is about retaining your independence and dignity with the assistance of family, friends and the community where necessary but knowing that the right care and support is there if that independence becomes significantly reduced or your changing circumstances mean increased isolation and loneliness.
The meeting has been brought through working closely with older people and a range of local groups and organizations to identify what matters to people as they grow older and how the borough can become a better place to grow old in.
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The event is called ‘A strategy for improving the experience of growing older in our borough: 2017 to 2020’.
It outlines four priority areas, which the strategy hopes to help, including communities, health, employment, and developing integration.
Tower Hamlets is the borough with the highest number of people aged over 65 who are suffering from loneliness.
Their aim is to enhance the health, wellbeing and quality of life of people growing older in Tower Hamlets.
The Tower Hamlets Public Health team was to ensure that the borough is one where growing older is about retaining your independence and dignity with the assistance of family, friends and the community where necessary but knowing that the right care and support is there if that independence becomes significantly reduced or your changing circumstances mean increased isolation and loneliness.
The meeting has been brought through working closely with older people and a range of local groups and organizations to identify what matters to people as they grow older and how the borough can become a better place to grow old in.
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