Targeting belongingness among older people through engagement in senior centres: intervention development study in Denmark.

ABSTRACT: Adults often experience a loss of social relations and sense of belonging in later life, leading to the risk of social isolation. Municipal senior centres offer a potential site for intervention, as they provide social communities targeting older people. However, not all older people find it easy to access these social communities due to experiencing physical and/or psychosocial frailties and could therefore continue to experience a decline in social relations and sense of belonging, which potentiates poor physical and psychosocial health and well-being. To date, there are limited evidence-based interventions in Denmark. The present article describes the development of an intervention to increase belongingness and decrease social isolation among older people with frailties who attend Danis

SUBMITTER: Langergaard S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11015047 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature