Health, Wealth and Happiness

The Health Wealth and Happiness (HWH) project is an 18-month long Silver Dreams-funded project. It supports older people with HIV to help each other to manage better financially and move towards active citizenship. We’re particularly interested in helping individuals to expand their social networks and become more resilient in the face of life-changing events.

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In short, we are aiming to support the financial, physical and emotional wellbeing of over 50s living with HIV, while working with other organisations to provide 'joined up' support for individuals. Keeping the needs of people living with HIV (PLWHIV) at its heart, the project is guided by a steering group. It comprises of people who are over 50 and living with HIV, others who work in social care as well as research and policy experts.

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At present we’re offering three service streams to our clients. We have short courses of groupwork for gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) as well as for African communities. We are planning to develop and deliver a series of workshops around finances and physical and emotional wellbeing. Some of these will be in partnership with other organisations. We’re also providing financial casework through a dedicated project advisor.

Through our mentoring scheme, we’re providing community-based practical and emotional support on a variety of issues determined by our service users. We’re also aiming to have close to 100 per cent of our volunteers being people aged over 50.

The project will also develop a Best Practice Toolkit for mainstream social care organisations, enabling them to better meet the needs of older people with HIV as they become more reliant on them. This will be accompanied by the development of a training programme.

If you would like to either volunteer or access the service yourself, please don’t hesitate to get in touch! You can either email us at healthwealthandhappiness@tht.org.uk or give us a bell on 020 7812 1615.