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Clear Voices for Older People
This page is a reference resource for Lancashire and Cumbria NW Older Person's Reference Group's "Clear Voices for Older People" project.
Useful Information
Information and key documents relating to this work will be posted here.
A Recipe for Care - DOH Report
Manchester Reference Group Activity Report 2007 - For Information
Knowledge review 13: Outcomes-focused services for older people
Involving Chinese older people in policy and practice
Dignity In Care
Launch of an important new campaign to raise the profile of treating people receiving care services with dignity. (download for further
details)
Older people ‘getting things done’: Involvement in policy and planning initiatives
A Joseph Rowntree Foundation review of how and why older people became involved in developing a range of policy and planning initiatives.
Using five different case studies, this report:
- maps out the ways in which older people got involved, offering ideas for other organisations and for older people themselves
- explores the key issues that need consideration
- draws out good practice from the schemes studied
- highlights how older people took part because they wanted to make a difference, not just as a way to pass the time.
The schemes included: a group which set up care services for older people; a Citizen’s jury which developed policy for older people; a project to meet the diverse needs of older people in one area; a scheme to provide accessible repair and maintenance services; and an initiative to design a house for older people.
Download at:
http://www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/eBooks/9781859354575.pdf
Your health, your care, your say: Evaluation Report
An independent report evaluating the Your health, your care, your say listening exercise on the future of community health and social care services has been published.
The report draws many positive conclusions from the exercise, for example, its integrity and success in reaching ‘seldom heard’ groups, and suggests some lessons for future engagement.
Evaluation of Your Health, Your Care, Your Say download at:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/13/86/24/04138624.pdf
Lancashire Partnership Strategy for an Ageing Population
The Lancashire Partnership is looking for your contributions to the development of its strategy which is designed to respond to Lancashire's ageing population. We are as a society moving into an exciting time when the 50 plus generation over the next 10 years will make up half the population of Lancashire.
Have your say on the strategy by viewing the draft consultation and then giving us your feedback via our online questionnaire.
For further information about this consultation and to find out other ways you can give feedback please visit:
http://lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/consultation/ageing_population/index.asp
Creating a commissioning strategy to develop older peoples mental health services in Lancashire
DOH plans for improving service user and public engagement in health and social care.
Contact Details
Office Base: Clear Voices for Older People, c/o Signposts Carnforth, Our Lady Of Lourdes Hall, Kellet Road, Carnforth, LA5 9HR
Email: clearvoices@signposts.org.uk
Mobile Phone: to be confirmed
Personal Social Services Survey of Home Care Users in England Aged
65 or Over: 2005-06
How older people use and value available resource
Older people's views and experiences of resources in later life
With increasing numbers of older people living longer, the future of their financial and service provision is a key policy concern, while poverty among the present generation of older people remains an important issue. This qualitative study, by the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University, explores how older people use and value available resources, and how they had planned for retirement and are planning for future later life.
The project was undertaken by researchers at the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University. The qualitative research involved
91 in-depth interviews with older people (aged between 65 and 84) during 2005.
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/pdf/2061.pdf
Report calls for abuse of older people to stop
Older people who live in their own homes should not face abuse or mistreatment, says a new report from Comic Relief and the Department of Health.
Read the report (UK study of abuse and neglect ) at:
http://www.comicrelief.com/docs/elder-abuse/ComicRelief-ElderAbuse-Full.pdf
Putting people first: a shared vision and commitment to the transformation of adult social care
Author: Ministers, local government, NHS, social care, professional and regulatory organisations Published date: 10 December 2007 Copyright holder:
Crown
Across Government, the shared ambition is to put people first through a radical reform of public services, enabling people to live their own lives as they wish, confident that services are of high quality, are safe and promote their own individual needs for independence, well-being and dignity.
This ministerial concordat establishes the collaboration between central and local government, the sector's professional leadership, providers and the regulator. It sets out the shared aims and values which will guide the transformation of adult social care, and recognises that the sector will work across agendas with users and carers to transform people's experience of local support and services.
You can download it free of charge here
