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Go ON Adopt a Care Home

March 8, 2011 disability, health, internet, Uncategorized

Go ON Adopt a Care Home

March 8, 2011

With 6 million older people currently offline and around 450,000 care home residents in the UK, Go ON Adopt a Care Home has just launched to utilise the brilliant skills of young Digital Champions.

The inspiration of Lilla Harris, former nurse and care home manager and founder of the award winning finerday.com, Go ON Adopt is encouraging every school in the UK to “adopt” a local care home or sheltered housing scheme, to help engage residents in the wonderful world of the web. For Lilla, it’s the logical next step after Finerday, which she developed after witnessing the dwindling number of letters and photos older people received. She realised that “the world was moving online and leaving older people more and more isolated.”

Chill4us Carers is based in Norwich, Norfolk.

We are a free peer support community offering help for carers and support with others who find themselves in the caring role. There is no need to feel isolated or afraid of the internet, as we are all there to support carers, and past carers, whether the problems be with benefits, disability, care of the elderly or children. Our 24 hour chat room is there for fun and support and we have an arcade with over 600 free games, a carers discussion board and a free daily carers newspaper.

Carers Chill4us

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