Older People
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Join Us With One of Our Community Projects. See Our Video Below of the Projects and What’s on Offer
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This is What a Tameside Activist Looks Like
This video was made in conjunction with Yellow Jigsaw, GM Older People’s Network and Age Friendly Tameside within Population Health at TMBC. The video premiered at a red carpet event at the Grafton Centre on 31st March 2022
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COVID-19 resources hub for people affected by Dementia
The resource hub provides a wide range of guidance and information for people living with dementia and those that care for them. The website also signposts to where you can get the help and support you need, whether it’s help with shopping or support with your mental health and wellbeing.
All resources have been quality checked. Click here to Visit the Dementia United website
COVID-19 Resource Hub
Tameside’s Super Six Walk Tracker
Residents in Tameside are being given the opportunity to challenge themselves by completing as many walks as they can in a month including one or more of the Super Six exercises (a programme of standing and sitting strength and balance exercises) as they go.
The Personal ‘Super Six Walks Tracker’ is aimed at anyone over the age of 50 or those who have been shielding over lockdown. It encourages users to add the exercises to the start and end of their walks, or at any rest points, using benches, trees or walls for support.
Find out more and download a tracker here: https://www.tameside.gov.uk/supersixtracker
The Personal ‘Super Six Walks Tracker’ is aimed at anyone over the age of 50 or those who have been shielding over lockdown. It encourages users to add the exercises to the start and end of their walks, or at any rest points, using benches, trees or walls for support.
Find out more and download a tracker here: https://www.tameside.gov.uk/supersixtracker
Couch to Out and About walking and benches programme.
Stalybridge Couch to Out and About Benches and Walking Map
At Age Friendly Tameside, we launched the age friendly walking and benches project Couch to Out and About on 29th June in Stalybridge. The project includes 5 strategically placed benches and 7 walking routes across Central Stalybridge and Ridgehill including Stamford Park, the Boating Lake and Cheetham Park. These are brought together by a map which can be downloaded here which lists all the locations of the benches and walking routes, as well as guided walks by local organisations including BigLocal, St George’s Church and Holy Trinity Church. The benches are also all numbered, to make both the benches and the people using them easy to find by locals including local taxi drivers, with local firms adding the bench locations to their satnav lists.
The launch was a great success with residents, colleagues and Cllrs attending to support the project within government guidelines. These benches are also helping to keep residents covid safe as they have been designed to have a table in the middle, and are also social talking benches where users of the benches are encouraged to sit and chat. It would be great to see you using the walks and benches out and about this summer and beyond!
As part of this project, we also hope to be able to yarn bomb the benches at the end of summer up until International Day of Older Persons on 1st October, using designs from school children and knits from older people in an intergenerational project. This is supported by the intergenerational project we launched at Gorse Hall Primary School in Stalybridge earlier this year, where we recruited a number of older people for online activities with a small group of school children. Once able, these older people will continue their activities which include storytelling, reading, knitting and other arts and crafts, by attending the school in person and adding gardening to their repertoire.
At Age Friendly Tameside, we launched the age friendly walking and benches project Couch to Out and About on 29th June in Stalybridge. The project includes 5 strategically placed benches and 7 walking routes across Central Stalybridge and Ridgehill including Stamford Park, the Boating Lake and Cheetham Park. These are brought together by a map which can be downloaded here which lists all the locations of the benches and walking routes, as well as guided walks by local organisations including BigLocal, St George’s Church and Holy Trinity Church. The benches are also all numbered, to make both the benches and the people using them easy to find by locals including local taxi drivers, with local firms adding the bench locations to their satnav lists.The launch was a great success with residents, colleagues and Cllrs attending to support the project within government guidelines. These benches are also helping to keep residents covid safe as they have been designed to have a table in the middle, and are also social talking benches where users of the benches are encouraged to sit and chat. It would be great to see you using the walks and benches out and about this summer and beyond!
As part of this project, we also hope to be able to yarn bomb the benches at the end of summer up until International Day of Older Persons on 1st October, using designs from school children and knits from older people in an intergenerational project. This is supported by the intergenerational project we launched at Gorse Hall Primary School in Stalybridge earlier this year, where we recruited a number of older people for online activities with a small group of school children. Once able, these older people will continue their activities which include storytelling, reading, knitting and other arts and crafts, by attending the school in person and adding gardening to their repertoire.