Men’s shed pilot programme significantly improved health and wellbeing
(Left to right) Members of Ballaghaderreen Men's Shed, Pat Towey, Tom Bruen, Martin Sharkey, Colm Flannery and Gerry Corrigan, supporting Men's Health Week 2021. The research highlighted the value of the men’s shed initiative, with levels of loneliness just 1% before the pandemic struck, but it went up to 39% a year into Covid-19.
Hundreds of men improved their physical and mental wellbeing through a 10-week pilot health programme that took place through the men’s shed initiative, a new report has found.
As men’s health week gets underway, a new report launched by the Irish Men’s Sheds Association’s (IMSA) has found that the physical and mental wellbeing of men’s ‘shedders’ improved significantly through a pilot ‘Sheds for Life’ health initiative supported by the HSE and Sláintecare.
