Feasibility of school students Skyping care home residents to reduce loneliness

Background: Intergenerational friendship has proved useful for older people in increasing socialisation. We explored the feasibility of school students Skyping older people in care homes with the long-term aim of reducing loneliness. Methods: Six school students from one secondary school and twenty...

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Autores principales:	Sonam Zamir, Catherine Hagan Hennessy, Adrian Haffner Taylor, Ray Brian Jones
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	Video-calls Intergeneration Older people Dementia Care homes Intervention Electronic computers. Computer science QA75.5-76.95 Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fffb306cb1ae4e34b5d1201cec344ba32021-12-01T05:03:40ZFeasibility of school students Skyping care home residents to reduce loneliness2451-958810.1016/j.chbr.2021.100053https://doaj.org/article/fffb306cb1ae4e34b5d1201cec344ba32021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958821000014https://doaj.org/toc/2451-9588Background: Intergenerational friendship has proved useful for older people in increasing socialisation. We explored the feasibility of school students Skyping older people in care homes with the long-term aim of reducing loneliness. Methods: Six school students from one secondary school and twenty older people, including seven with mild to moderate dementia, from three care homes, engaged in Skype video-calls over six weeks. A conversational aid aimed to help school students maintain conversations was employed. Students and care staff completed feedback forms after each session on video-call usage, usefulness of the conversational aid, and barriers and benefits of video-calls. Six care staff provided further feedback on residents’ experiences through unstructured interviews. Interviews and field notes were thematically analysed. Results: Residents enjoyed Skype-calls with school students. Over six weeks, video-calls became longer, and more residents participated. Analysis revealed four themes. First, the intervention led to increased mobility for three older people and improved self-care in regard to personal appearance for five residents. Second, school students and older people formed friendships which inspired the need to meet in person. Third, the use of video-calls enabled participants to view each other’s environments in real time. Last, directly experiencing the intervention was important for the continued participation of the care staff in the study. Skype-calls between schools and care homes are feasible and may help reduce loneliness. Conclusions: Institutional collaboration between educational settings and care homes through cost effective video-calls can be useful to increase socialisation for older people, and promote later on-going use with other external organisations to help reduce loneliness and social isolation.Sonam ZamirCatherine Hagan HennessyAdrian Haffner TaylorRay Brian JonesElsevierarticleVideo-callsIntergenerationOlder peopleDementiaCare homesInterventionElectronic computers. Computer scienceQA75.5-76.95PsychologyBF1-990ENComputers in Human Behavior Reports, Vol 3, Iss , Pp 100053- (2021)
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spellingShingle	Video-calls Intergeneration Older people Dementia Care homes Intervention Electronic computers. Computer science QA75.5-76.95 Psychology BF1-990 Sonam Zamir Catherine Hagan Hennessy Adrian Haffner Taylor Ray Brian Jones Feasibility of school students Skyping care home residents to reduce loneliness
description	Background: Intergenerational friendship has proved useful for older people in increasing socialisation. We explored the feasibility of school students Skyping older people in care homes with the long-term aim of reducing loneliness. Methods: Six school students from one secondary school and twenty older people, including seven with mild to moderate dementia, from three care homes, engaged in Skype video-calls over six weeks. A conversational aid aimed to help school students maintain conversations was employed. Students and care staff completed feedback forms after each session on video-call usage, usefulness of the conversational aid, and barriers and benefits of video-calls. Six care staff provided further feedback on residents’ experiences through unstructured interviews. Interviews and field notes were thematically analysed. Results: Residents enjoyed Skype-calls with school students. Over six weeks, video-calls became longer, and more residents participated. Analysis revealed four themes. First, the intervention led to increased mobility for three older people and improved self-care in regard to personal appearance for five residents. Second, school students and older people formed friendships which inspired the need to meet in person. Third, the use of video-calls enabled participants to view each other’s environments in real time. Last, directly experiencing the intervention was important for the continued participation of the care staff in the study. Skype-calls between schools and care homes are feasible and may help reduce loneliness. Conclusions: Institutional collaboration between educational settings and care homes through cost effective video-calls can be useful to increase socialisation for older people, and promote later on-going use with other external organisations to help reduce loneliness and social isolation.
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title	Feasibility of school students Skyping care home residents to reduce loneliness
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Feasibility of school students Skyping care home residents to reduce loneliness

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