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| Reaching out | | Author(s) | Mark Hunter |
| Journal title | Community Care, no 1232, 23-29 July 1998 |
| Pages | pp 20-21 |
| Keywords | Living in the community ; Rights [elderly] ; Community care ; Social Services Departments ; Projects ; Camden ; Hackney. |
| Annotation | Can local authorities prevent older people slipping through the eligibility net, while respecting their right to independence and privacy? This article examines two innovative projects in two London Boroughs. Residents of Concern (ROC) was a pilot project carried out in the King's Cross and Somers Town wards of Camden between October 1997 and March 1998 as part of the Camden Vulnerable Older People's Project. ROC set out to identify older vulnerable people and offer them connections to a local range of facilities and services. In Hackney, a director of services for older people has been appointed, with the challenge of reaching all sections of the older community. As part of its successful bid for a Better Government for Older People (BGOP), was the proposal for a `Council for Older People', representing the diverse range of communities, which will meet to `develop a strategic overview across the statutory, private and voluntary sectors of the needs of older people'. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980728010 A |
| Classmark | K4: IKR: PA: PF: 3E: 82L8: 82LD * |
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