Care home helps beat loneliness
A WIDNES care home is offering older people the chance to have lunch with them in a bid to reduce loneliness.
Staff and residents at Anchor’s Widnes Hall on Coronation Drive in Ditton are inviting residents who would otherwise be on their own to join them for a free meal.
The catering team – who use fresh, seasonable ingredients for all its meals as part of the home’s health eating ethos – hope older people living alone will benefit from a hot meal particularly as the weather gets colder.
Widnes Hall manager Amanda Byrne said: “We’re delighted to be inviting older people from our local community to come and join us for lunch.
“Research from the Campaign To End ● Loneliness shows that around 10% of the population aged over 65 feel lonely all or most of the time, with more than 800,000 older people being chronically lonely.
“It is important as a charity that we are not only committed to happy living for our residents but we do the same for the local community by providing a hot nutritious meal to vulnerable older people.
“The lunch will give the older people the chance to have a chat over a meal and make new friends.”
Places are limited and will be filled on a first-come-first-serve basis.
To book a place call 0151 422 0004.