Social (Business) Innovations
Inclusion/ employment
The dialogue with time offers an exibition with regards to the life of the elderly. All guides are over 70 years old. The social enterprise "Dialogue Social Enterprise" offers replication through a franchise model:
https://www.dialogue-se.com/what-we-do/dialogue-with-time
Loneliness
In German city Cologne so called "chat benches" invite seniors to meet strangers and have a talk.
https://insuelz.com/2024/08/22/plauder-bank-suelz/
Retirement home
Music and Memory is a US based non-profit that supports the elderly living in retirement homes. Each one gets an ipod entailing his most favorite songs when he was young. Twice a day the nurses put on these personally listed ipods for about half an hour. This enhances the life satisfaction immensly:
https://musicandmemory.org
Interview:
http://www.gratis-webserver.de/si/3.html
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=fyZQf0p73QM&fbclid=
IwAR1lyNbguY7KGAA4_rl_alzemES9G4bGkGk_A3ONgF-rSBkdVHeLjKDOjAw
In a Japanese nursing home babies are "employed". The parents get napkins or other things for visiting the elderly with their babies to cheer them:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzp37/japanese-nursing-home-recruits-babies-to-keep-elderly-company
Support for digital devices
Germany based "Digitalpaten" are around 60 aid workers on a voluntary basis supporting the elderly how to use a mobile phone and the internet:
https://digitalpaten.nrw
Heat management
German city Bielefeld offers a "heat portal" including a telephone service, behavioral tips (i.e. for the elderly) when it is very hot and a service called "heat assisstents", where especially trained volunteers support people in need in terms of home help:
https://www.bielefeld.de/node/29050
Senior Social Entrepreneurs
The German social enterprise "Gründer50plus" is a consultancy aiming at empowering senior citizens to found a social enterprise.
https://www.gruender50plus.de
Helping for Housing
In German City Munich, a plattform is provided for students to find cheap rooms within the houses of senior citizens ("Wohnen für Hilfe" - Helping for Housing). They support the senior citizens in terms of gardening, cleaning and doing the shopping (no care):
https://www.muenchnerpflegeboerse.de/wohnformen-im-alter/wohnen-fuer-hilfe.htm
The dialogue with time offers an exibition with regards to the life of the elderly. All guides are over 70 years old. The social enterprise "Dialogue Social Enterprise" offers replication through a franchise model:
https://www.dialogue-se.com/what-we-do/dialogue-with-time
Loneliness
In German city Cologne so called "chat benches" invite seniors to meet strangers and have a talk.
https://insuelz.com/2024/08/22/plauder-bank-suelz/
Retirement home
Music and Memory is a US based non-profit that supports the elderly living in retirement homes. Each one gets an ipod entailing his most favorite songs when he was young. Twice a day the nurses put on these personally listed ipods for about half an hour. This enhances the life satisfaction immensly:
https://musicandmemory.org
Interview:
http://www.gratis-webserver.de/si/3.html
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=fyZQf0p73QM&fbclid=
IwAR1lyNbguY7KGAA4_rl_alzemES9G4bGkGk_A3ONgF-rSBkdVHeLjKDOjAw
In a Japanese nursing home babies are "employed". The parents get napkins or other things for visiting the elderly with their babies to cheer them:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzp37/japanese-nursing-home-recruits-babies-to-keep-elderly-company
Support for digital devices
Germany based "Digitalpaten" are around 60 aid workers on a voluntary basis supporting the elderly how to use a mobile phone and the internet:
https://digitalpaten.nrw
Heat management
German city Bielefeld offers a "heat portal" including a telephone service, behavioral tips (i.e. for the elderly) when it is very hot and a service called "heat assisstents", where especially trained volunteers support people in need in terms of home help:
https://www.bielefeld.de/node/29050
Senior Social Entrepreneurs
The German social enterprise "Gründer50plus" is a consultancy aiming at empowering senior citizens to found a social enterprise.
https://www.gruender50plus.de
Helping for Housing
In German City Munich, a plattform is provided for students to find cheap rooms within the houses of senior citizens ("Wohnen für Hilfe" - Helping for Housing). They support the senior citizens in terms of gardening, cleaning and doing the shopping (no care):
https://www.muenchnerpflegeboerse.de/wohnformen-im-alter/wohnen-fuer-hilfe.htm
