DERBY SUPPORTED ACCOMMODATION STRATEGY –October 2005 for Derby City Council
The Supported Accommodation Strategy was jointly commissioned in April 2005 by Derby City Council's housing, social services and community policy Departments and Central Derby and Greater Derby Primary Care Trusts in partnership with Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Derbyshire Mental Health Services NHS Trust. The strategy will contribute towards and inform the commissioning of health, social care and housing services for older people, the development of a Housing Strategy for Older People, the City's Vision for Ageing and the developing neighbourhood agenda.
The drivers for the strategy are to:
• Shift the balance of care in order to reduce the number of admissions to long-term care, and support more older people at home
• Diversify specialist accommodation away from reliance on long term residential/nursing home care into housing models such as extra care
• Develop a whole system approach for planning and commissioning housing, health and social care
• Explore the potential to invert the triangle of care – see Figures A and B below - and shift towards prevention and promotion of well-being
• Strengthen the neighbourhood approach to service planning
• Inform the Vision for Ageing in Derby and a quality of life approach
This approach is in line with the national context. The government is developing a cross departmental strategy for an ageing population, which recognises the changing population pattern and the need to challenge ageism and consider the contribution that older people make to society.
This same approach is also reflected in the recent Department of Health Green paper on Adult Social Care, which is built around a social inclusion approach for vulnerable older people. The starting point for the vision “is the principle that everyone in society has a positive contribution to make to that society and that they should have a right to control their own lives. Our vision is to ensure that these values will drive the way we provide social care”.
Figure A - Support for People Today Figure B - Support for People Tomorrow
We undertook this work in partnership with Peter Fletcher Associates.
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