Age Alliances Wales_LTC Consensus Meeting 10-Nov-2015

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cydweithio i gefnogi pobl hŷn yng Nghymru/working together to support older people in Wales

Addressing the needs of the ageing population in Wales – AAW priorities

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Age Alliance Wales (AAW) was set up in 2003 and is funded by the Welsh Government.

It is a powerful alliance of 20 national voluntary organisations committed to working together to develop the legislative, policy and resource frameworks that will improve the lives of older people in Wales.

Collectively AAW member organisations possess extensive service development and service delivery knowledge in a range of policy areas. All organisations also act at a strategic as well as an operational level and many are membership based.

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Action on Hearing Loss Cymru, Age Connects Wales, Age Cymru, Alzheimer’s Society Wales, Arthritis Care, British Red Cross in Wales, British Lung Foundation, Care & Repair Cymru, Carers Wales, Contact the Elderly, Carers Trust, Cruse Cymru, Deafblind Cymru, Disability Wales, NIACE Cymru, Prime Cymru, Royal Voluntary Service, RNIB Cymru, The Stroke Association and Volunteering Matters.

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Population projections estimate that by 2030, the number of people aged over 65 living in Wales will increase by 34%. The largest increase will be in the number of people aged over 85 which is forecast to rise by 80%.

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Preventative Services

The Social Services and Well-being Act (Wales) will place a duty on local authorities to work with partners to provide preventative services.

This new legislation will provide an opportunity for the voluntary sector to strengthen partnerships with local health boards and local authorities.

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Preventative ServicesAAW organisations provide a range of community based services that reduce the pressure on emergency care services by developing effective partnerships with the statutory and private sectors.

Locally managed and coordinated services mean that third sector organisations are able to provide services that are agile and responsive to individual need. Organisations are well placed to support statutory health and social care services to adopt a more person centred approach.

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Preventative Services

The Welsh Government needs to support the development of social networks and preventative initiatives that can underpin and stimulate community activity and enable all older people to live a full and active life.

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Age Connects Wales• H&SS have undue bureaucratic processes in place with the third sector. This stifles development and flexibility.

•A research project that looked at the transactional costs of the systems thinking would really help to unpack the restraints the process puts on innovation, perhaps in relation to delayed transfers of care.

•http://www.ted.com/topics/relationships Social Services are broken, how can we fix it?

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British Red Cross• How can individuals be supported at point of diagnosis to enable them to better manage their condition?• Look wider than the condition itself and consider other things that can impact an individual’s ability to manage a long term health condition – transport and good transport provision being key to this.

• Impact of changes to eligibility criteria - individuals who previously would have been able to access statutory support are now no longer eligible. Third sector stepping in to support vulnerable older people.

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RNIB Cymru• By 2050, the number of people with sight loss in the UK will double to nearly four million

• Dementia and sight loss - around 2.5 per cent of people over the age of 75 have dementia and serious sight loss. Sight loss can make the effect of dementia more severe and dementia can make the effect of sight loss more severe.

• Sight loss and falls• Stroke and sight loss

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Royal Voluntary Service• 65% of people admitted to hospital are over 65 with more than 2 million unplanned hospital admissions for those over 65

• Staff and/or volunteers will work with clinical staff to identity those that might need a bit of extra support in hospital and/or to leave hospital

• Support on wards• Take home and settle• Call and check

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Transport• An issue that has come up frequently and is important across all of the key challenges is transport.

A series of volunteer led car schemes operate across Wales, each are area specific with many having local restrictions. All are well used and valued with opportunity to tie into other services provided such as lunch clubs. Car schemes are also service specific eg transport for Renal patients across Powys/Ceredigion

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Stroke Association• Building Research and promoting stroke knowledge to improve stroke care • Fund Priority stroke related research in areas of neglect and under-funding, reflecting expert opinion and the views of people affected by stroke• Build capacity, training opportunities and expertise in stroke research; influence to remove the barriers to stroke research and support its translation into practice•Put stroke survivors and their caregivers at the heart of self-management of stroke by collecting and utilising their knowledge in the My Stroke Guide portal, and our other Services.

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Age Cymru

•Age discrimination in health and social care

•Improvements in provision of care for people with dementia

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Thank you

•Rachel Lewis

•www.agealliancewales.org.uk

Age Alliances Wales_LTC Consensus Meeting 10-Nov-2015

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