Tablets are good for your health!

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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
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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

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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

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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 Im too old!
• It doesnt do anything that would be of interest
  to me
• Its too complicated
• My Son, Daughter, Grandson, Granddaughter, etc.
  dont have the time to show me how to use them

Slates The first tablets meet the iPad the
new kid on the block!
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Breaking Down the Barriers

• What 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
• Its too complicated Thats why were 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

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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
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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

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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

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Thank you for listening

• for more information contact
• cathy.gormal_at_renfrewshire.gov.uk