Caring neighborhoods
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How can you work on caring neighborhoods in practice and policy? What can caring neighborhoods achieve? Where are the possibilities, where are the pitfalls and where are the limits? We tackle these questions in our research.
A few projects
Building neighborhood networks for the elderly
This guide provides tools for practitioners who want to strengthen the neighborhood networks of socially isolated elderly people. Many initiatives can be hidden under this broad description. However, the major common denominator of these initiatives is the pursuit of promoting mutual support in a street, neighborhood or village among socially isolated elderly people and other local residents.
Let our podcast "het kleine helpen" inspire you
Replacing a light bulb at the neighbor's house, the neighbor across the street who sometimes looks after your children when you quickly go to the local store,... That is what we mean by "het kleine helpen": helping neighbors and being helped by local residents with small things.
In this podcast series, researcher Liesbet Lommelen from Thomas More explains what it is and how you can apply it in a rural and urban environment. In addition, some local residents share how they approach this in their neighborhood. Both in a big city like Antwerp and in a neighborhood in Arendonk.
This podcast was created with the support of the Flemish Government.