Prevention for older People
Demographic and social changes in recent years have placed health and social care service under pressure, with a estimated increase of over 51% more people over the age of 65 by 2030, preventative approaches are central to the future of social care commissioning for older people.
Enabling Older people to retain their independence for as long as possible, through preventative approaches, is central to maintaining their quality of life and also reducing pressures on local health and social care budgets.
Utilising person-centred and asset based approaches, to provision and commissioning, prevention with older people is aimed at meeting the needs that older people identify as important to them:
- Being in their own home
- Getting out and about
- Friendships and relationships,
- Learning and leisure opportunities,
- Control over daily life and decisions
- Meals and nutrition,
- Keeping active and healthy,
- Access to volunteering or employment,
- Support for caring responsibilities and
- Access to good relevant information.
Making choices, being informed
- One Voice for Age Sutton
- Village and Community Agents- Gloucestershire Rural Community Council
- Prevention Matters
- Sure Start to Later Life
Promoting independence and wellbeing
- Community Team Plus
- Sandwell Community Offers
- People to People
- Living Well
- Neighbourhood Network Schemes
