DAY OPPORTUNITIES
Our Day Opportunities Service focuses on enhancing and developing relationships and building self-confidence to enable clients to better manage their health, wellbeing and self-care while combating loneliness.
Whether you are looking for a social hub to make new friends or looking for some structure and assistance during the day, our Day Opportunities service can help provide meaningful social contact in a safe and secure environment.
Group activities and shared interest groups are most likely to meet older people’s needs for promoting health and wellbeing and providing meaningful social contact. We offer access to new opportunities, learning, health promotion and support our clients and their carers through difficult times. Our groups and social environment effectively tackle loneliness, improve resilience, and enable meaningful connections to be made.
Our Day Opportunities service provides
a social hub
We know home based services alone cannot meet all our needs. People are social, who benefit from peer support to tackle loneliness by giving us a sense of belonging, build our support networks, improve resilience, and enable us to stay connected
nutrition & hydration
All Day Opportunities clients receive a Rainbow Meal providing good nutrition and hydration
support
Attending our Day Opportunities service allows us to not only meet our clients care needs, but to also empower them to have the confidence to better manage their health and wellbeing, allowing them to maintain their independence.
access to services
Through our Day Opportunities service, clients can also access hairdressing, chiropody, community agent as well as counselling & therapeutic support services.
We do this through
movement
self-care
nutrition
social interaction
Locations:
Based out of the choice of two locations, our quality care hubs promote health and wellbeing, while providing personal care with dignity.
Monday to Friday
from 9:30am – 3:00pm
Monday, Wednesday & Friday from 9:30am – 3:00pm
Goose and Goslings at The Rainbow Foundation
Our Goose and Goslings programme is a weekly intergenerational intervention developed in partnership with Mother Goose Nursery promoting movement, play, memory and friendship.
My life has been made 100% better.
I feel well supported by everyone and receive good food and good company. The transport to and from the centre is brilliant and I enjoy the sights on the way. The Community Agents are very helpful and go above and beyond. My birthday here was excellent. Staff are great listeners.
I wished I had known the Rainbow Centre was here before because when you live on your own you start to neglect yourself. Coming to the centre has changed my life totally as I have made new friends.
My husband’s mood is lifted by coming to the centre. When he doesn’t attend, he can be quite aggressive and angry. When he’s at the centre he likes the attention he receives and is much happier when he comes home.
The Rainbow Centre offers dad the care he needs but it also gives him so much more. He has something to get dressed for and is always ready before the bus arrives. He’s made some great friends and enjoys being part of the community again. It’s something for him. He is visibly happier.
Mums conversation after being at the centre is better. Mum has lots to talk about and can remember most of the activities she has done.
The impacts of loneliness in later life have been exasperated by the coronavirus pandemic. During the initial lockdown period we saw:
in the onset of dementia
in loneliness, depression and anxiety
in physical health amongst clients who would normally access our Day Opportunities Service
Contact us today to find out more or book in for a trial day
5.0%
of people in Great Britain (2.6 million adults) reported that they felt lonely “often” or “always” between 3 April and 3 May 2020, about the same proportion as pre-lockdown.
30.9%
of those asked, (7.4 million adults) reported their well-being had been affected through their feeling lonely in the past seven days.
25.3%
of older people in Wales reported that they were lonely
75%
More than 75% of women and a third of men over 65 live alone
People aged 80
and over were most likely to report high levels of loneliness
5.0%
of people in Great Britain (2.6 million adults) reported that they felt lonely “often” or “always” between 3 April and 3 May 2020, about the same proportion as pre-lockdown.
30.9%
of those asked, (7.4 million adults) reported their well-being had been affected through their feeling lonely in the past seven days.
25.3%
of older people in Wales reported that they were lonely
75%
More than 75% of women and a third of men over 65 live alone
People aged 80
and over were most likely to report high levels of loneliness
5.0%
of people in Great Britain (2.6 million adults) reported that they felt lonely “often” or “always” between 3 April and 3 May 2020, about the same proportion as pre-lockdown.
30.9%
of those asked, (7.4 million adults) reported their well-being had been affected through their feeling lonely in the past seven days.
25.3%
of older people in Wales reported that they were lonely
75%
More than 75% of women and a third of men over 65 live alone
People aged 80
and over were most likely to report high levels of loneliness
5.0%
of people in Great Britain (2.6 million adults) reported that they felt lonely “often” or “always” between 3 April and 3 May 2020, about the same proportion as pre-lockdown.
30.9%
of those asked, (7.4 million adults) reported their well-being had been affected through their feeling lonely in the past seven days.
25.3%
of older people in Wales reported that they were lonely
75%
More than 75% of women and a third of men over 65 live alone
People aged 80
and over were most likely to report high levels of loneliness
5.0%
of people in Great Britain (2.6 million adults) reported that they felt lonely “often” or “always” between 3 April and 3 May 2020, about the same proportion as pre-lockdown.
30.9%
of those asked, (7.4 million adults) reported their well-being had been affected through their feeling lonely in the past seven days.
25.3%
of older people in Wales reported that they were lonely
75%
More than 75% of women and a third of men over 65 live alone
People aged 80
and over were most likely to report high levels of loneliness