Cork care home residents to stay connected with new tablets
Cork County Age Friendly Programme Supports Digital Connectivity Cork County Council, through its Age Friendly Programme, has partnered with the HSE to provide digital supports for older people in residential care homes, enabling them to link with family and loved ones.
Digital supports are set to be provided to a number of residential care homes across Cork as part of Cork County Council’s Age Friendly Programme.
The local authority partnered with the HSE on the initiative, which began with a first call to Bantry - who joined the Age Friendly County Programme in 2020.
Care centres in Bandon, Cobh, Kinsale, Mitchelstown, Charleville, Millstreet and Passage West Monkstown are set to be provided with an age friendly ACORN Table in the coming weeks, enabling residents to link with family and loved ones.
Irish made and designed with the older person in mind, the tablet is easy to navigate and uncluttered, offering ease of access to the internet and includes a managed service for use in an older person’s community care setting.
Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr. Mary Linehan Foley noted the importance of such an initiative.
“Events of the past year have shown how connected we are as a community and how willing we are to support one another," she said.
“Providing digital connectivity to elderly members of the community will be great for residents, their families, carers and the Cork County community at large.”
Chair of Cork County Older People’s Council Liz Maddox welcomed the first delivery of equipment in Bantry.
This initiative comes from collaborative work by Cork County Council, the Cork County Age Friendly Alliance, the Cork County Older People’s Council and the HSE in response to key learnings arising from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Age Friendly Cities and Counties Programme is part of a worldwide movement, inspired by the World Health Organisation. Cork County Council committed to the programme in 2014.
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