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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.
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.
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.
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.
Comprehensive list of website links to related charities and organisations.
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.
The White Paper, Our health, our care, our say, set out a vision for the future of health and social care and is driving improvements in services for older people.
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.
