Leeds launches its own website for older people
09/05/2008
A training session for older people in Armley and Wortley was held at the Park Lane College Leeds St Bartholomew’s Centre this week, to help launch a new specialist website for older people.
The Infostore (see the link below) has been developed by Leeds City Council, working in partnership with Leeds Older People’s Forum and Leeds Primary Care Trust. The site is for older people themselves, their relatives and carers, and for professionals.
It contains details of hundreds of organisations and services and access to a huge range of leaflets, guides and other useful documents. Armley Helping Hands, and many of its members, have been closely involved in the development process.
Infostore Development Manager Rob Cook, from the Leeds Council Communication Unit (Social Care) led the workshop with 15 older people from the local area, and taught them how to navigate the site. The group will now be joining the Entry IT course at the centre where they will be able to practise their IT skills and access the new website.
The College also has a new 20” widescreen laptop with broadband which they will be taking out to homes and coffee mornings to encourage learning.
It is hoped that the pilot project in Armley and Wortley will be rolled out across the West of Leeds including Pudsey, Stanningley and Bramley, using Park Lane College Leeds adult and community learning centres for training workshop sessions.
The project is run in partnership with Park Lane College Leeds, Armley Helping Hands, Leeds City Council, Leeds Adult Services, The Department for Work and Pensions (partly funded as a result of the Government's Education for the Third Age initiative), Older People Forums, and Leeds Primary Care Trust.