Reach Out to Older People through Help the Aged

Are older people under-represented in accessing your organisation's services? Does your organisation wish to promote its tailor-made services or reduced cost products for older people in a particular region? How do you demonstrate that your organisation is engaging with and involving older people in the community? By downloading, completing and returning the form which accompanies this article, you can register your organisation's interest in reaching out to older people across Northern Ireland with Help the Aged.

Examples of relevant outreach activities might include promoting concessionary fare schemes, providing welfare advice and information sessions, or setting up home safety demonstrations. Your organisation may also register a desire to consult with older people's groups on a particular local issue, or alternatively register more unusual outreach activities with a social or entertainment aspect.

Information required by Help the Aged, for registration of up to 3 outreach priorities per organisation for the period of September 2006 to September 2007, includes:

• Organisation contact details
• Format of outreach delivery
• Geographical focus
• Availability

This information will be held centrally by Help the Aged, to be updated annually or if your organisation informs us of changes in the interim, and passed on to interested older people's groups.

(Please be advised that details of sales ventures by purely commerical organisations will not be retained or promoted by Help the Aged.)