What else?

Other deliverables to support DFG work

Robert Cornwall – DFG Co-ordinator - Cumbria

Foundations DFG Workshop - Riverside Liverpool28th June 2012

In the Past

Old Couple by the Cottage

What does old age look like?

Standard Life Pensions website

SAGA Dating

ScottishWidows

ActiveLifestyle

2006 2011 2016 2021 2026 2031

38,000 40,200 42,400 44,600 46,800 49,000

65,000

74,400

83,800

93,200

102,600

112,000

Manchester Cumbria

Growth in Over 65 Households – Cumbria and Manchester Comparison

Cumbria

Manchester City

Similar Populations –500,000

Ageing Well in Cumbria• Importance of involving older people and creating a

partnership approach• Key issues for us

• Tackling social isolation• Better partnerships and engagement• Developing community assets• Improved advice and information• Intergenerational work

• Listening is key – encourage and respond• Help older people to be active in their communities –

improving engagement – good examples already

Adaptations ‘stuff’

• Traditional Grant funded• Based on expectations – promises• What if nothing was there? • Assumptions – Growing older people population will be the same as now– It is inevitable that we will be overwhelmed

• Interest Groups – e.g. Suppliers, Social Care, Politicians, Providers

• Personalisation

Health• Incentives, obligations and reality – NHS Outcomes

Framework• Preventing Hospital Admissions – Readmissions and

Falls• Hip Fracture costs £30k in Health and Social Care• Cold damp home – link between Housing and Health• Social Isolation• Health and Wellbeing Agenda

Self Help

• Leveraging someone’s assets• Families - responsibility• Preparing for growing old – in your 50s– Keeping active– Adapting your home when you have income

• Creating resilience in yourself and your family, home and community

• Digital resources - telecare

Community Led

• If your neighbour was unsafe in their home, unable to have wash, trapped on the ground floor, sleeping on the sofa, what would you do?

• Asset Based Community Development– Social Enterprise– Employment and Training Projects

Housing Solutions

• Moving to a more suitable home• Homeshare• Offering an alternative to staying in the same

house all your life• Creative use of equity – ‘holy grail HMG’• No ‘Lifetime Home’ standards

Prevention Strategies

• Offering services which increase activity and opportunities for reducing social isolation

• Targeting prevention at whole population– Cultural Shift– Clinical Commissioning Groups – Health and Wellbeing Strategies

• Technology

Barriers to Change

• Attitudes and habits – ‘we’ve always got by’

• No Reality check – ‘ • Promises – ‘ a safe and secure old age ’• Consumer culture – Are you a producer?• Legislative changes – Welfare reform

On the Horizon

• Draft Social Care Bill– Cap on Residential Care costs - £35k -£50k– Making DFG expenditure allowable in the cap

• Make staying at home first choice– Some Hospitals offering straight to Residential

Care as an option – this will have to stop– More Integration

• Localism and Place based budgets