Proposed venue: Town Hall, Moorgate Street, Rotherham
Contact: Dawn Mitchell Ext 2062
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Housing, Care and Support Services for Older People - Preparing for the Future
Minutes:
Shona McFarlane, Director of Health and Wellbeing and Kirsty
Everson, Director of Independent Living gave a powerpoint presentation
on housing, care and support services for older people, preparing
for the future.
The presentation drew specific attention
to:
- Demographic Challenge – JSNA
and National trend analysis
- Services as they are today
- Challenges today
- Issues arising from the current
model of provision
- Services in the future
- Role for RMBC’s services
- How do we manage the issues we face
today, whilst preparing for the future
- Short – medium term
solutions
- Longer term solutions
Discussion and a
question/answer session ensued and the following issues were
raised:
- Who would undertake the assessment
process and whether health official should be involved
- Whether this would encourage an
increase in demand for services
- How ideas were being linked with the
PCT
- How funding would be split –
it was necessary to ensure that all funding did not only fall to
adult social care
- Sheltered housing and the need to
assess properties for their suitability to be classed as sheltered
housing
- Concerns about service users being
made to take the services of Rothercare
as part of their offer of accommodation
- Offering the services of
Rothercare to people in privately owned
homes
- Whether there was a policy on single
people living in 3 bedroomed
properties
The next steps were to aim to have a draft
vision for accommodation, care and support for older people in
Rotherham by September 2008. This would
include the following:
- Options for the future of
Rothercare
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Opt out agreement from Rothercare
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Financial implications and consequences
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Marketing/extending access/promoting the service
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Transitional position if it is anticipated that numbers may
drop
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Legal perspective
- Future design of properties –
build in accessibility at planning stage
It was agreed that a formal joint meeting
should be arranged in the future to discuss this further.
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