tablets are good for your health! renfrewshire libraries improving younger and older people's...
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Tablets are good for your health!
Renfrewshire Libraries
Improving younger and older people's experiences of living together in their community using digital technology
This Project is supported by the Scottish Government Public Libraries Improvement Fund
Using technology is a good thing!There is a recognition that being part of the digital community can bring health and wellbeing benefits
both to individuals and to society as a whole
Background to the project
• Target group is older people in the community -inviting school classes to join in brings together different sections of the community
• We use tablet technology, mostly iPads, to enable the groups to interact in a fun way that promotes learning for both groups
• Money from Scottish Government public library improvement fund paid for 12 tablets , 2 routers and the network time to provide internet access to get older people online
Barriers to Engagement with Target Groups
Some of the perceived barriers
during engagement with older
people - Bringing the young people
in helps to break down these
perceptions
•Top of the list – “I’m too old!”
•It doesn’t do anything that would be of
interest to me
•It’s too complicated
•My Son, Daughter, Grandson,
Granddaughter, etc. don’t have the
time to show me how to use them
Slates – The first tablets meet the iPad – the new
kid on the block!
Breaking Down the BarriersWhat we have learned ;
•most important element to engaging older adults with
younger people is to establish some common ground
•older people may think there's nothing of interest to them. A
way around this particular problem is for the young person to
start showing someone nearby what the iPad can do, and let
natural curiosity do the rest
•It’s too complicated – That’s why we’re here!
Our older participants are able to experience elements of
using a tablet with the support of both the young person and a
dedicated member of staff. This is particularly useful when
both parties are learning something new
Intergenerational activity • With residents in the Gallowhill
regeneration area of Paisley- A partnership with Renfrewshire Housing services and Gallowhill Primary School
• We are building a memory wall using unique Renfrewshire resources , including School Registers, Poor Law records and historical photographs, we can digitise and load tablets, children then use these as common talking points and use the devices themselves to capture the notes
Glencairn Court residents and Gallowhill PS
Intergenerational coffee time
Digital intergenerational activity for residents in sheltered housing – kicked off with an invitation to Monkdyke Sheltered Housing Complex to work in partnership with:
• Housing and Property services• Active Communities • pupils from Linwood High School
Taking it forward• Expand our programme of intergenerational work with residents of
sheltered housing complexes and build on the positive effect that interaction with young people and access to new technology can have on both groups
• Promote libraries own digital content to both older and younger members of the community – free e books , audio books and e magazines are coming soon
• Develop the unique resources that Renfrewshire holds, libraries are currently digitising records, Half Timer School Registers, Poor Law records, historical photographs
• Build on the networks to ensure that new joint partnership projects could be developed and attract funding
