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Terms of engagement
— engaging older people in the development of community services | | Author(s) | Roger Blunden |
| Corporate Author | King's Fund |
| Publisher | King's Fund Publishing, London, 1998 |
| Pages | 19 pp |
| Source | King's Fund Publishing, 11-13 Cavendish Square, London W1M 0AN. |
| Keywords | Services ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Engagement ; Projects ; Social surveys ; Merseyside. |
| Annotation | Engagement means seeking out older people and giving them a chance to say what they think, reflecting on their experience and drawing lessons from it, agreeing action to bring about improvement, taking action, and ensuring that the process of engagement continues. This paper describes one approach to engagement with older people in Kirkby, Merseyside, and the lessons which can be drawn from the work. It demonstrates that community care services cannot be seen in isolation from other aspects of people's lives. Older people had a range of concerns about life in their community, as well as specific comments about health and social services. Establishing working relationships with professionals enabled older people to play an active part in evaluating current provision and influencing future service development. This type of approach could be useful at both local and national levels in ensuring that policy and practice reflect older people's requirements for services and community life. This work was supported by a grant from the Department of Health (DoH) to the King's Fund. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980623204 P |
| Classmark | I: RH: DN: 3E: 3F: 84 * |
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