Warwickshire County Council is reviewing the current community based Older People Day Opportunities Services that it commissions. The services are provided to people aged 65 years and over within their local community. This can often be in a building based setting such as a day centre. There are seven services; Waverley Day Centr; InTouch Home Care; New Directions Rugby Ltd; Khair in the Community; (Nuneaton Muslim Society) Satkaar Asian Elders Day Care Services; Shri Hindu Gujarati Samaj (Anmol) and Sikh Mission Day Centre .
The services support older people and their relatives/carers to access a day service and give them the opportunity to mix with similar aged people. The services offer activities to help support individuals health and wellbeing and they can also provide an opportunity for carers, family members or friends to have a break from their caring role.
The Council is undertaking this review to find out if the services are meeting the needs of those that are using them and their relatives/carers. This includes finding out whether older people in Warwickshire feel part of their local community and are not isolated. Loneliness and social isolation is a significant and growing issue for older people in particular. Therefore it is important that this issue is understood and that services are offered to prevent loneliness.
This review will help to identify ways in which to improve the day service offer for older people. This will include how any future community based Older People Day Opportunities service may assist with
167 responses were received for the surveys
The engagement findings reflected the following key themes to explore moving forward;
167 people responded to the online questionnaire with other people engaged through face to face opportunities. An engagement report was produced to understand and summarise the feedback received from the surveys and face to face engagement that took place between September and November 2018 on the provision of commissioned older people’s day opportunity services.
This document was shared with commissioning colleagues to support the potential redesign and review current day opportunity services for people living with dementia and people that have a Learning Disability.
Warwickshire County Council is reviewing the community based Older People Day Opportunities Services that it provides. These are provided to people aged 65 years and over within their local community, this can often be in a building based setting such as a day centre. We currently have seven services:
The services support older people and their relatives/carers to access a day service and give them the opportunity to mix with similar aged people. The services offer activities to help support individuals' health and wellbeing and can also provide an opportunity for carers, family members or friends to have a break from the caring role.
The council is undertaking this review to find out if services are meeting the needs of those that are using them and their relatives/carers. This includes finding out whether older people in Warwickshire feel part of their local community and are not isolated. Loneliness and social isolation is a significant and growing issue for older people in particular, we want to gather your thoughts on the topic and how we can tackle this issue.
We are seeking the views of people that are currently using the council's community based Older People Day Opportunities services and their families, carers, as well as the wider public who wish to contribute their thoughts on how the community based Older People Day Opportunities service offer could be refined and improved.
How to Take part
This survey has now closed. Many thanks to everyone who took the time to share their views.
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