Time to Connect Evaluation
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Time to Connect Evaluation
IRAS ID
223586
Contact name
Naomi Harflett
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
National Development Team for Inclusion
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 7 months, 12 days
Research summary
Time to Connect is a project which has been funded by the Big Lottery Accelerating Ideas fund to support people living in traditional care settings to increase their community interaction and wellbeing.
Older people and people with learning disabilities living in traditional care settings can lose community connections, skills and the opportunity to contribute to their community. As a result, they can be isolated, with few connections outside of the care setting, and with poorer quality of life and wellbeing. Time to Connect will train staff in care home settings to become community inclusion mentors and work with people in care settings to increase participation in the community and to contribute to the community through the opportunity to become involved in their local Time Bank.
As a new intervention an evaluation will be conducted to:
a) Measure the impact of the project on the lives of those living in care settings participating in the project;
b) Identify ‘what works’ in the delivery of the project (e.g. the role of the different organisations involved, staff attitude and approach, delivery and approach to support for community mentors) to facilitate or impede positive outcomes; and
c) Use learning to support subsequent phases and roll out of the project and inform how success can be replicated in care settings beyond the project.REC name
Social Care REC
REC reference
17/IEC08/0014
Date of REC Opinion
19 Apr 2017
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion