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Wednesday 30 April at 14:00 UTC Homeshare: An Opportunity to Tackle Loneliness Speaker: Paul Cann, Co-founder, Campaign to End Loneliness and former CEO, Global Initiative on Loneliness and Connection Network members will automatically receive an invitation. Non-members are also very welcome: to sign up for the session, please email hi@homeshare.org To coincide with the end of Global Intergenerational Week, we are delighted that Paul will present a global picture of loneliness in our communities and the power of intergenerational initiatives, including homeshare, to combat it. We know that one of the key benefits of homeshare is companionship: join Paul to hear some startling statistics and inspiring ideas for understanding loneliness and creating connection. For other #GIW25 events, see: https://generationsworkingtogether.org/global-intergenerational-week
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30 April 2025
Presenter: Paul Cann, the co-founder of the Campaign to End Loneliness and former CEO of the Global Initiative on Loneliness and Connection.
Topic: Homeshare: An Opportunity to Tackle Loneliness
To coincide with the end of Global Intergenerational Week, we are delighted that Paul has agreed to present a global picture of loneliness in our communities and the power of intergenerational initiatives, including homeshare, to combat it.
We know that one of the key benefits of homeshare is companionship: join Paul to hear some startling statistics and inspiring ideas for understanding loneliness and creating connection.
Past Presentations
March 2025
Click on the toggle below to find a recording of the presentation, given by HI Trustee, Marlene Welzl of ‘Wohnbuddy’ and Adélaïde Vannier of Ensemble2Générations.
Presenting the Impact of Homeshare
Presenter: Marlene Welzl, cofounder of the Austrian homeshare programme “Wohnbuddy”, with a contribution from Adélaïde Vannier of “Ensemble2Générations” in France.
Topic: Presenting the Impact of Homeshare
We, as homeshare practitioners, are convinced of the positive impact that homeshare creates in society. But how to make this impact visible to others, like governmental organizations, and in particular, if you don´t have much data yet to rely on? In her presentation, Marlene presents a framework you can use to explain the positive impact of homesharing with qualitative data. Adélaïde then provided the perspective of a long-established programme in France, Ensemble2Générations, who have just completed a year-long project to collect data in order to measure their impact.
Watch a recording of the presentation
September 2024
Managing a Challenging Match
For the first time ever, HI Network members had the opportunity to gather in person for HI in Conversation before the 7th World Homeshare Congress in Trento, Italy.
“Managing a Challenging Match: The Importance of Trust and Clear Policies” was presented by Lucie Cunningham from THE Homeshare, Ireland, followed by discussion about issues encountered in a homeshare match and how to address them. As a closed session for practitioners only, it presented an opportunity to share openly and learn from the experience of others in a confidential, supportive environment.
After some refreshments, the focus was on A Vision for the Homeshare International Network with a discussion about how HI can best support its members. Touching on research initiatives, mentoring opportunities and a community of practice, members had the opportunity to tell us how HI could add value to their organisation.
April 2024
Preparing Annual Reports
About the Conversation
Preparing Annual Reports was a session for HI Network Members on Tuesday, 2 April 2024 led by Connor Timmons of Homeshare Vermont.
Topics addressed included:
- Annual Report Goal Setting
- Anatomy
- Strategies
January 2024
Homesharing in Residential Homes
About the Conversation
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Claire de Kerautem (1Toit2Ages, Belgium) and Estelle de Saint-Bon (Ensemble2Générations, France) presented about the matches that their programmes are making in residential homes. In the chat messages, Adélaïde Vannier explained that in France, RS and RA are like small buildings with more or less 50 apartments/studios. Each senior or couple of seniors has a studio. And we (E2G) have studios for students in the RA/RS, in order to mix the two generations. The students have at least a room, and can be also a studio with kitchen depending on whether it’s a RA/RS or an EHPAD (medical home, no private kitchen). |
This session was in French with translated captions which did not work as intended. The presentation can be viewed here. The film that was shown at the end is the one from Bordeaux. The garbled captions made it difficult to view so it was deleted from the recording; please watch it from the links below. The presentation was followed by a lively discussion.
Watch these films to learn about the placements in the residential homes :
- in Belgium : https://bx1.be/categories/news/anderlecht-des-etudiants-en-maison-de-repos-pour-organiser-des-animations/
- in Bordeaux : Etudiants en résidence autonomie with English subtitles
- in Marseille : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKvy5NKkeag
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In the chat, A. Rossy noted that “in Flanders, in the Dutch language part of Belgium (1toit2ages is only in the French language part!), there also exists Kangeroo houses where the older person(s) live at the ground floor at younger people (can be all ages) live on the top floors and provides help and give services to the person(s) at the ground floor.” She recommended an excellent documentary to watch, made by a young care taker who lives in a home with older people, about dementia : Teun Toebes Shows in Inspiring Documentary That People With Dementia are ‘Human Forever’ see here a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lxPqxsgUKA
November 2023 (for HI Network members)
Dealing with media enquiries for Homeshare Programmes
About the Conversation
The HI Network in Conversation was led by Sibel Whitehead of Supportmatch Homeshare with examples of media stories. This session was for registered HI Network Members who discussed their experiences and practices.
Recommendations are being developed in a Best Practices document for Homeshare International Network members.
New Zealand Ministry for Social Development and HANZA (Homeshare Australia and New Zealand Alliance) partnership to pilot Homeshare in New Zealand.
About the Conversation
George Minton from the New Zealand Ministry of Social Development shared the policy considerations and decisions made in order to enable a Homeshare Pilot in New Zealand via the Office for Seniors | Te Tari Kaumātua.
- Participants were especially interested in the Personal Wellbeing Index they use.
HANZA Homeshare Development Officer Wendy Francis described the partnership that was established with the New Zealand Office for Seniors and the role HANZA played in supporting the pilot.
Age Concern Auckland were the winning applicant for the pilot. Homeshare Coordinator Amanda
Payne shared their experiences and outcomes to date.
View the presentation (ZOOM video).
HANZA and NZ Govt In Conversation PowerPoint slides
May 2023
The Importance of Social Connections
About the Conversation
Heather Thompson is currently engaged as a speaker on the topics of age-friendly communities, aging well, and elder abuse. She serves as the Chair of the Halton (Ontario) Elder Abuse Prevention Network and is an active member of the National Intergenerational Advisory Committee in Canada.
Heather Thompson
Heather is strong advocate for age-friendly, inclusive communities where all people can fully participate without barriers. She contributes to research (see National Institute on Aging documents) and has presented on the topics of Aging, and Age-friendly initiatives at local, provincial, national and international conferences and events.
Heather completed graduate studies at Queen’s University, with a Master of Science degree in Aging and Health. Her work and volunteer experience have encompassed leadership roles in the non-profit sector in Quebec and Ontario, including youth justice, disabilities, mental health, community support services for older adults, palliative and hospice care. More recently, she served for over 10 years as the Director of Age-Friendly Initiatives with Community Development Halton, a nonprofit organization serving Halton region. She actively steered the activities and projects of the Burlington Age-Friendly Council within the World Health Organization’s framework of an Age-Friendly practice, and served as the Chair of the Halton Age-Friendly Network, Co-Chair of the Southern Ontario Age-Friendly Network and Co-chair of the Older Adult Isolation Action Table with Halton Region. For over four years, Heather served as a Board Director with the Ontario Association of Councils on Aging.
Heather presented on Through an Age-Friendly Perspective – Understanding the Importance of Social Connections and their Impact on Health and Well-being of Older Adults.
Some key learnings:
- Risk factors of isolation and loneliness
- Understand how Age-Friendly communities and inter-generational programs contribute to the participation, health, independence and security of older adults
- The importance of social connections and their impact on the health and well-being of older adults
- Best practices in the prevention and reduction of isolation and loneliness
- How Homeshare can protect against isolation and loneliness
Review the slides:
View the presentation
For more information, read:
- Opinion | Loneliness Is an Epidemic in America, Writes the Surgeon General – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
- Social prescribing (nih.gov)
Watch
Age doesn’t define you – Global Campaign to Combat Ageism – #AWorld4AllAges – YouTube (1:44 min)
The Loneliness Epidemic | Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Social Isolation – YouTube (9:45 min)
April 2023
Economic savings for the Irish Government through Homeshare
January and July 2023 (for HI Network members)
Matching Essentials
The HI Network in Conversation was led by Sibel Whitehead and Zaira De Novellis of Supportmatch Homeshare with case studies, discussion and opportunity for questions. This session is restricted to registered HI Network Members.
2022
November 2022: The National Health Service (NHS) and Social Care in England, and how it is tackling housing & inequality through Homeshare
About the Conversation
The National Health Service (NHS) and Social Care in England, and how it is tackling housing & inequality through Homeshare led by Ian Burden, Head of Transformation, NHS England – South West with Sibel Whitehead of Supportmatch Homeshare.
The National Health Service (NHS) and Social Care systems in England are a complex set of arrangements covering a wide range of organisations. This complexity can make it difficult for new services to engage with the NHS, especially where the service works best covering a number of organisations.
At the same time, issues around housing in England are becoming more acute covering poor quality housing driven by a lack of housing supply and strong demand. With housing being a key determinant of health outcomes, the NHS, in its role as an Anchor Institution, is driving a programme targeting health inequalities, as well as trying to solve its staff housing issues.
The session gave a basic overview of the NHS, its role looking at housing in the aspects of health outcomes and the role that Homeshare can take to support improved health outcomes, both in England and other global health systems.
Background Information
People who want to know more about the NHS (which doesn’t cover social care) can start off with this 2017 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEARD4I3xtE (6:34 minutes) which is now out of date but helps illustrate the journey very well and includes some details that people may find interesting. However, that then needs to be followed by looking at https://www.england.nhs.uk/get-involved/resources/involvejargon and specifically looking at the ‘understanding the NHS’ link which includes a video (5:43 minutes) that provides the update on system structures. It provides an interesting look at how things have changed over the last 5 years with ‘STPs’ and ‘ACO’ now being ‘ICS’. The NHS England page also includes a link to a jargon buster …. with over 1,000 health acronyms!
What may also be interesting for people is that the NHS is looking to tackle health inequalities through the Core20 Plus 5 and supporting our initiative to be seen as an Anchor Institution which we modeled on the US. This role as an anchor institution includes income generation to support communities.
With all of the above, the NHS is looking more and more at Population Health Management and data sources, including from other international systems. We are interested in seeing what other countries are doing and more specifically, if there are case studies/data that support the conversation.
- View the Nov 29 presentation
- View the Nov 22 presentation
September 2022: the economic potential of inter-generational solidarity homesharing by Joachim Pasquet, Directeur of Cohabilis.September 2022: The economic potential of inter-generational solidarity homesharing (France)
Contact us if you have a suggestion for a future session.
