Tag: seniors
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Takk! – Uniting Communities and Funding for Impact

Solfrid Sagstad and Stian Lavik have identified critical funding challenges within the adult social care sector over the past seven years. Their platform, Takk!, leverages community-driven crowdfunding to support initiatives that enhance seniors’ well-being. By facilitating contributions from individuals and businesses, Takk! fosters community engagement and aims to democratize the funding process, ultimately improving quality…
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Understanding the Crisis: Mind the Gap in Well-Being

The adult social care sector faces a crisis due to insufficient funding for programs that promote seniors’ quality of life, such as social engagement and mental health support. Takk! addresses this gap through crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, uniting community resources to enhance well-being initiatives and transform care into meaningful experiences for seniors.
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Takk! – Where Communities and Funding Unite to Enable Impactful Change

For the past seven years, we – Solfrid Sagstad and Stian Lavik – have worked closely with the adult social care sector, witnessing both the incredible potential for improvement and the significant funding challenges. While there are countless efforts aimed at improving the lives of seniors, current funding barely covers the basic health needs, leaving…
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Investing in seniors has never been more important

Our population is getting older. As health standards, medicine and treatments improve we are all living longer. Today, one in five people in the UK are aged over 65 – that’s 11 million people. This has grown by 1% in just the last four years and this is projected to reach 22% of the population…