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Older people
The Department’s policy for older people and their carers seeks to promote social inclusion and control over their lives, ensuring respect and choice. This enables older people to live independently for as long as possible, benefit from tailored care and support, and experience an enhanced quality of life.
Prevention Package for Older People
The prevention package raises the focus on prevention as a means of ensuring good health, well-being and independence in later life by promoting and encouraging uptake of comprehensive health and social care services for older people.
National Dementia Strategy
The National Dementia Strategy sets out initiatives designed to make the lives of people with dementia, their carers and families better and more fulfilled. Updates on progress in implementing the strategy are available on the Dementia Information Portal. To enter the portal simply register an email address, create a password and use these on each subsequent visit.
Housing, health and social care
Funding has been made available to local authorities to develop new extra care housing. This is aimed at enabling more older people to live at home or in supported housing as opposed to long-term residential care.
Mental health services
A mental health programme for older people is in place to combine forces across mental health and older people’s services to ensure that older people can access services on the same basis as younger adults.
Intergenerational Demonstrator Programme: generations together
The Generations Together programme is seeking bids from all English local authorities with social services/children's service responsibilites to submit expressions of interest.
Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPPs)
POPPs provide evidence of preventative interventions that work to maximise older people’s quality of life and to support them to be healthy, active and independent for longer.
NSF for Older People and system reform
The National Service Framework for Older People was published in 2001 and set new national standards and service models of care across older people's health and social care services.
Telecare services
Telecare enables people to stay at home with increased safety, confidence and independence. It provides support for carers alongside healthcare, social care and housing initiatives.
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