Healthy Ageing

As a health and care system we will:

• Promote projects that are designed to enable older people to remain active and can access suitable housing, transport links, volunteering, and employment opportunities.
• Proactively identify those who are at risk of, or who are living with, frailty.
• Promote a personalised approach to care planning that takes their future needs into account, including the needs of their carers.
• Promote preventative, short-term approaches, and only increase care and support in line with people's needs.
• Ensure appropriate services, including from the voluntary sector, are available to older people and their carers, and that these services are designed with the people that will use them.
• Invest in services that promote recovery from short-term illnesses and help restore people's independence, and to avoid long-term care where we can.
• Change the culture to ensure that all involved in delivering care focus on maximising a personalised approach to wellbeing, independence, and quality of life that is important to the individual.

• Fewer older people experience a fall.
• Fewer older people are reporting themselves as experiencing loneliness or depression.
• Fewer older people require moving into long-term care.
• Fewer people require an emergency admission to hospital.
• The length of time older people spend in hospital is shorter.