Benefits
A simple method creating the link for effective communication and meaningful connections, empowering a new level of health care ✓
1
Hour of simple, flexible training
5
Minutes of simple, effective communication
1000s
of meaningful resident and patient connections
Never Lonely® is specifically designed with all stakeholders in mind. It offers value for everyone in empowering a new level of health care.
Effective for residents and patients
- Aged care residents
- Dementia and Alzheimer’s patients
- Children in hospital and people with disabilities
Benefits include more effective, stimulating and relevant conversations, communication and connections; reduced loneliness, helplessness and boredom; verbal skill support; greater awareness of being involved, valued and cared for; and enhanced wellbeing, positivity, quality of life and enjoyment in day-to-day living.
Effective for caregivers
- Carers
- Staff
- Support workers
- Volunteers
Benefits include an easy, ‘time light’ and gentle method for improving caregiving; more meaningful, beneficial and enjoyable conversations and communication; reduced uncertainty and unease in daily interactions with residents and patients; and greater communication skills and job satisfaction.
Effective for public and private health care providers
- Aged care facilities
- Assisted living facilities
- Hospitals and hospices for adults and children
Benefits include a cost-effective, easy-to-adopt and quick method with broad application and big returns; better communication for improved, personalised resident and patient care with no staffing increases; greater team skill and satisfaction; and avenues to enhance reputation through improved health care outcomes.
Families also benefit from greater peace of mind their loved ones are being cared for in a more personalised and positive manner.
Never Lonely® is geared for easy, affordable and fully flexible scaling. Start with one ward, unit or team and grow it through your entire operation. It is designed to become part of the fabric of your daily life. We encourage health care providers to not see Never Lonely® as an ‘add on’ but rather as a cultural boost. Once your caregivers and other key stakeholders are familiar with how to apply the tools and techniques, it becomes a catalyst for personalised and relevant conversations and communication in as little as 5-minutes. In turn, this unlocks 1,000s of meaningful resident and patient connections.
Never Lonely® offers a full suite of tools and techniques:
- Training handbooks
- Life Background Form
- Six Talking Points Poster
- Conversation Openers Booklet
- 20 topic picture/story books
- 4 children’s story books
- Children’s song