Guest Blog Post from Mandy, Social Prescribing Link Worker in Leeds One of my patients reported feeling isolated and lonely in the first Covid lockdown which was having an impact on his mental health. He was shielding due to physical health difficulties and could no longer connect to the groups that he used to seeContinue reading ““Digital Champions Training has enabled us to better support our patients!””
Monthly Archives: November 2020
How we collaboratively designed and built a toolkit in 12 weeks
Guest post from David Hampton – Interaction Designer and Developer at Croydon Council If you’ve read our previous blog posts about the Digital Inclusion Toolkit project, you’ll know that Leeds City Council and Croydon Council have teamed up in partnership with AgeUK Croydon and TechResort. Why? We have a joint mission – to share aContinue reading “How we collaboratively designed and built a toolkit in 12 weeks”
“Supporting our members through lockdown with digital”
As we approach a second lockdown, Michelle at AVSED shares in this guest blog post how they’re adapting their services and using digital as a way of keeping their members connected and combatting loneliness. AVSED is a Leeds Neighbourhood Network based in Yeadon and we work with over 60’s in Aireborough (Yeadon, Guiseley, Rawdon andContinue reading ““Supporting our members through lockdown with digital””