Implementing a digital tool to support meaningful engagement with socially isolated or lonely older adults.

ABSTRACT: Social isolation and loneliness are significant concerns in community dwelling older adults due to associated poorer health outcomes, inadequate crises responsiveness and increased societal burdens of care and cost. Generating Engagement in Networks Involvement (GENIE) is an online evidence-based, client-centred social network tool piloted by community-aged care services in Sydney, Australia. GENIE facilitates access to community resources, activities and people to extend or re-establish a client's social connections. This study aimed to identify GENIE's potential to maintain and promote social connections in older adults from the perspective of allied health professionals who could deliver GENIE. This qualitative exploratory study involved 33 participants on an emerging placement across t

SUBMITTER: Patel Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10092141 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature