Table 3 Examples of potential rewards and costs for actors as part of a social exchange in relation to tailoring of cultural offers for older people through social prescribing
Actors | Rewards | Costs |
|---|---|---|
Older person | • Being listened to and understood • Getting clear information about available cultural offers • Being referred to an appropriate cultural offer • Making connections with new people | • Trying things that do not improve their situation or that make them feel uncomfortable (e.g. if stigmatising or patronising) • Encountering difficulties with accessibility when trying a cultural offer |
Link worker | • Having a wider range of offers to propose to older people • Feeling able to make a difference to an individual’s situation • Contributing to shaping a cultural sector offer for older people | • Time to find and learn about local cultural offers • Having their suggestions for improving a cultural offer ignored • Finding interactions with cultural sector staff or older people difficult |
Cultural sector staff | • Being able to reach a wider audience; expanding the range of people using their service • Seeing the difference that a cultural offer can make to an individual’s life | • Time to develop a cultural offer that is appropriate and accessible • Time to connect with link workers • Receiving negative feedback from link workers or older people |