Issue - meetings

To consider the draft booklet about the Ageing Well programme (attached).

The Committee considered the draft Ageing Well in Cheshire East Programme which was due to be launched on 26 January.  The Programme was set up in response to the demographic challenge that the Borough had the fastest growing ageing population in the North West.  The programme had been developed in partnership and was overseen by a Programme Board.   The Programme Board comprised representatives of various organisations including the Local Involvement Network, Age UK and Fifty Plus Network.  The Vision encapsulated by the Programme was stated as:

“Ageing Well in Cheshire East” will seek to make the Borough a good place to grow old, by maximising the opportunities for the ageing population to prepare for the later stages of life, maintain their quality of life during later life and have access to person centred services when required”.   

The Ageing Well programme comprised six work streams:

      Care and Support services

      Community Safety

      Healthy Ageing, Culture and Learning

      Housing

      Income and Employment

      Transport

Each work stream had a set of five priorities that would be the focus over the five year course of the programme, the priorities could be classed as Preparation; Living Well or Access; for example, under the work stream of Healthy Ageing, Culture and Learning, priorities included:

      Improve information available to older people on learning, cultural and health and well being opportunities by developing a range of appropriate formats, publishing these in the right places and checking that they are getting to the right people (Preparation);

      Increase participation in activities… (Living Well);

      Continue to consult with older people on what services would best support them to live longer and healthier lives… (Access).

RESOLVED: That the update be received and a further update on the progress of the Programme be made to a future meeting.