RESHAPING CARE FOR OLDER PEOPLE Community Resilience work-strand Antonia Baird Argyll Voluntary Action AVA community resilience
Feb 23, 2016
RESHAPING CARE FOR OLDER PEOPLECommunity Resilience work-strandAntonia BairdArgyll Voluntary Action
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Reshaping Care for Older People• 7 Community Resilience Officers• Enabling the shift of services to the community• Linking H&SC and third sector organisations.
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Empowerment• Grey Matters• Co-production• Local groups delivering local services for themselves.
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• ‘We are able to have our say – and people listen to us. We make the decisions about what we need and we are heard. With Grey Matters it belongs to us’
• MM and Jean, both over 80, talking to Annabel Goldie
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Enablement• Linking with information• Linking with representation• Creating links between communities of geography and interest• Showcase events
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Co-production• Working together to create new opportunities• Connecting the sectors and using the skills of communities• An asset based approach
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Grey Matters
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Lunch Bunch…soup groups and outings• Created by timebank volunteers• Safe place for adults with who are frail• Feed the person and the mind!• Mostly self-financing.
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‘I really look forward to the community lunches – our lunch bunch are growing every time so now over 30 of us are meeting up’Mary, 84
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Community Shop• ‘Helping out at the Community Shop means I feel useful again
and involved with my Community – I have a purpose – I am DOING something’
• Dennis, 86
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Visiting Friends• A new volunteer befriending scheme for older people launched
in Helensburgh• Emphasis on companionship/ targeting isolated seniors• Volunteers matched with client
VolunteerTraining forVisiting Friends
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Safe at Home• A new telephone assurance service operating in Helensburgh
for older people , recently discharged from hospital• Volunteers make a call to see if the person may need a
prescription collection or any shopping• Aimed to make the transition from hospital to home easier.
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Partnership working• Sharing resources and expertise• Integrating services for the benefit of older people• Combatting social isolation• Supporting re-ablement and rehabilitation
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Falls Prevention• Taking falls prevention messages out into the community
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Impact• First year:• Over 600 people involved in volunteering projects• 200 new timebankers• 200+ older people supported with friendship opportunities, practical
help from getting lifts to hanging curtains and support to air their views.Second year:• Continue development of opportunities for• Exercise• Stimulation• Friendship• Policy input • co-production of local services – new Shed and Safe at Home project
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‘Timebank and Grey Matters means I have a reason to get up in the morning’
Sarah, 87
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‘Volunteering with the young people keeps me young, its lovely they spend time with us and I feel I still have something to offer,’
Grace, 81
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Thank you for your time!