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Crawford3 | Adelaide Boylan3  | Jan Angelo4 | Matthew Freeman2 | Rachel Milte1  | Helen Exley2 | Stacey George1,2   \n1Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Science, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | 2Adelaide Primary Health Network, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | 3Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | 4Port Adelaide Enfield Council, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia  \nCorrespondence: Heather Block ([heather.block@flinders.edu.au](heather.block@flinders.edu.au))  \nReceived: 11 August 2025 | Revised: 6 November 2025 | Accepted: 11 November 2025  \nFunding: This study is funded by the Northern Community Health and Research Foundation, South Australia, and the Hospital Research Foundation, South Australia.  \nKeywords: aged | community participation | feasibility studies | loneliness | primary health care | quality of life | social isolation | social prescribing  \nABSTRACT  \nBackground: Older people are living longer with unmet social needs that impact their health and wellbeing. Social prescribing programs connect individuals with nonclinical services to address these needs. While international programs have shown benefits for quality of life, health and healthcare utilisation, social prescribing research in Australia is limited.  \nObjective: This study aims to design, implement and evaluate a social prescribing program to address the unmet social needs of older adults in Adelaide, South Australia.  \nResearch Design and Methods: This observational feasibility study will use a multiphase mixed methods process and outcomes evaluation. Prescriptions for Connection, a social prescribing program, will be co‐designed and implemented in six primary care practices and three council areas. Implementation outcomes will be evaluated using the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance Framework. Qualitative data collection, via focus groups for health and social care providers and interviews for older people, will be based on the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to explore barriers and facilitators, and explain outcomes.  \nConclusion: This study will provide novel evidence on the process, outcomes and feasibility of the Prescriptions for Connection program. Scalability, sustainability and modifications to the program will be explored for testing in a larger hybrid effectiveness‐ implementation trial.  \nPatient or Public Contribution: Older adults will participate in codesign workshops and provide feedback on the Prescriptions for Connection program. Community members will be recruited as volunteer community connectors to link older people to social activities. The national peak body for older Australians will be represented on the steering group.  \nTrial Registration: ACTRN12625000664448 .  \n1 | Introduction  \nGlobally, the population is ageing rapidly, with estimations that by 2030, one in six people will be over the age of 60 years [1] .  \nPopulation ageing is a major public health concern as increased longevity does not always correlate with good health [2, 3] . Older adults experience many underlying nonmedical causes of ill health, including social isolation and loneliness.  \nThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.  \n© 2025 The Author(s) . Health Expectations published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.  \nHealth Expectations, 2025; 28:e70506 1 of 11  \n[https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70506](https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70506)  \nLoneliness (the painful feeling of being alone) and social isolation (a lack of social co","cbCaipKIMerF9jCi","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipKIMerF9jCi","pdf",580193,11,"English","# Abstract\n## Background\n## Objective\n## Research Design and Methods\n## Conclusion\n## Patient or Public Contribution\n# Introduction","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the study address?\",\"answer\":\"The study targets unmet social needs in older people, particularly loneliness and social isolation, which negatively affect health and wellbeing.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the main goal of the protocol?\",\"answer\":\"To design, implement, and evaluate a social prescribing program for older adults in Adelaide, South Australia.\"},{\"question\":\"How will implementation outcomes be evaluated?\",\"answer\":\"Implementation outcomes will be assessed using the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance (RE-AIM) Framework.\"}]","Prescriptions for Connection - Social Prescribing for Older People in Australia - Protocol for a Feasibility Study | PDF",1790742455,28]