Open Age Online

Open Age（OA）是一个慈善法人组织（CIO），在慈善委员会注册（编号1160125）。我们让我们的会员更健康，更快乐，更快乐。我们有30年的历史，为老年人提供高质量的团体活动。疫情前，Open Age在50-60个场地举办了250多项活动，每周有1500名老年人参加。我们有4000+活跃会员。“开放时代对我来说是一条生命线。开放时代对我来说就像一个大家庭。我通过开放时代建立的友谊是我生活的重要组成部分。”（女性80-89）65岁以上的人中有近三分之一独居，英国有120万长期孤独的老年人。“孤独症的流行”和人口老龄化带来的成本上升给医疗和保健预算带来了巨大压力。Open Age有一个经过验证的模式来支持老年人，使他们保持健康和社会联系。 疫情期间，Open Age利用Zoom开发了一个每周定期互动在线活动计划。在我们的高峰期，我们每周提供超过100小时的在线活动，超过1800名老年人访问。该项目是成功的，但不像目前交付的那样可扩展。该项目将与老年人和客户合作，使用设计理事会双钻石以用户为中心的设计流程，以确定开放时代将如何扩大在线交付，并增加可以接触到的老年人的数量，从而从服务中受益。

Open Age (OA) is a Charitable Incorporate Organisation (CIO) registered with the Charity Commission (No. 1160125). We keep our members healthier, happier, and having fun for longer.We have a 30-year history of delivery high quality group activities for older people. Pre pandemic Open Age delivered 250+ activities from 50-60 venues reaching 1500 older people per week. We have 4000+ active members."Open Age is a lifeline for me \[..\] Open Age is like an extended family to me. The friendships I have made through Open Age are a key part of my life". (Female 80-89)Almost a third of over 65s live alone, with 1.2 million chronically lonely older people in the UK. An 'epidemic of loneliness' and rising costs of an ageing population are putting major strain on health and care budgets. Open Age has a proven model to support older people to keep them healthy and socially connected. During the pandemic Open Age developed a regular weekly programme of interactive online activities using Zoom. At our peak we delivered 100+ hours of online activities per week accessed by over 1800 older people. This project was successful but not scalable as currently delivered.The project will work with older people and customers using a Design Council Double Diamond user centred design process to identify how Open Age will scale up online delivery and increase the number of older people who can be reached and therefore benefit from the service.