Interview transcripts for "The use of technology to address loneliness and social isolation among older adults: the role of social care providers"

These data are the transcripts of 19 interviews with social care providers in Wales. The focus of the interviews was on their use of technology to communicate with older people during the COVID-19 pandemic with particular regard to the potential role of technology in mitigating loneliness and enhancing social connection.

Keywords:
loneliness, social isolation, social connection, social interaction, digital technology, COVID-19
Subjects:
Psychology

Cite this dataset as:
Barnett, J., Grey, E., Baber, F., Corbett, E., Ellis, D., Gillison, F., 2023. Interview transcripts for "The use of technology to address loneliness and social isolation among older adults: the role of social care providers". Bath: University of Bath Research Data Archive. Available from: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-01346.

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Data

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Creators

Julie Barnett
University of Bath

Elisabeth Grey
University of Bath

Fran Baber
University of Bath

David Ellis
University of Bath

Fiona Gillison
University of Bath

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University of Bath
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Data collection method:

Adult social care commissioners and providers in Wales known to be commissioning or delivering community-based services to older adults (aged 65 years and over) were invited to take part in the study. Recruitment was supported by the Wales Centre for Public Policy who commissioned this research. We do not know who received invitations and so cannot calculate a response rate. Invitations stated that the research team were interested in understanding if and how technology was being used to build social connections and tackle loneliness and social isolation among older adults. Interviews were semi-structured and covered: the nature of organisations’ focus on loneliness and social isolation; the role of technology to address this in the pandemic; who the technology worked best for, how and why; positive and negative impacts of using technology to address loneliness and social isolation; and future plans for technology use as pandemic restrictions were lifted. Some interviewees had previously taken part in a related survey. Here researchers conducting the interviews could access and refer to the interviewees’ survey responses to prompt further discussion. The interview schedule was developed by the research team with input from an experts-by-experience group of older adults and the project steering group (consisting of colleagues in the WCPP and Welsh Government).

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Interview protocol

Funders

Wales Centre for Public Policy

Use of technology to tackle loneliness among older people in Wales during the coronavirus pandemic
513398/513383

Publication details

Publication date: 5 December 2023
by: University of Bath

Version: 1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-01346

URL for this record: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/eprint/1346

Related papers and books

Grey, E., Baber, F., Corbett, E., Ellis, D., Gillison, F., and Barnett, J., 2024. The use of technology to address loneliness and social isolation among older adults: the role of social care providers. BMC Public Health, 24(1). Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17386-w.

Barnett, J., Ellis, D., Gillison, F., Grey, E., Baber, F., and Corbett, E., 2022. Older adults and the pandemic: tackling loneliness through technology. Cardiff: Wales Centre for Public Policy. Available from: https://www.wcpp.org.uk/publication/older-adults-and-the-pandemic-tackling-loneliness-through-technology/.

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Departments:

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Health