Strategic Context. The Dundee Partnership is fully committed to supporting people to live fulfilled and independent lives, safely in their communities and reducing the need for people to be cared for in congregate settings. Our commitment is to provide information, advice, services and support people to achieve improved personal outcomes. Strategic and intermediate outcomes have been developed to assist us to meet statutory obligations, prioritise resources and ultimately, to improve how we deliver services to optimise personal outcomes for people. In delivering this commitment we recognise that we face particular challenges. For example, we know that around 40,000 of our citizens live in the 15% most deprived areas in Scotland and, as the Christie Commission reported, 32% of adults in these areas are likely to have a long-standing illness (compared to only 14% in more affluent areas). Also, the proportion of our population over 85 years is expected to almost double within the next 20 years. We know that an ageing population and the effects of deprivation combine to increase demands on health and social care services. People are living longer with increased ill-health and frailty and people in areas of multiple deprivation are likely to experience the long term conditions associated with ageing at an earlier stage. As the number of older people increases the number of people living with dementia will also increase. There has been a recent drive to ensure that dementia is diagnosed and work in underway to reduce variation across the city. As more people are diagnosed, preventative services can be offered which help people to live independent and healthier lives for longer. The range of specialist services in the community which meet the needs of older people with advanced dementia is improving and carers are being supported to prevent crisis situations which result in emergency respite in care homes. Our service users and their families and carers expect higher quality and more choice than previously. We know that people increasingly expect the same variety, choice and flexibility that they receive from the business sector. Our immediate outcomes and indicators of performance are organised under four themes β Reshaping Care for Older People (Change Fund for Older People), Personalisation, Carers and Protection. These themes follow the national policy framework and contextualise it to our local circumstances.
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Sources: Single Outcome Agreement
Strategic Context. The Dundee Partnership is fully committed to supporting people to live fulfilled and independent lives, safely in their communities and reducing the need for people to be cared for in congregate settings. Our commitment is to provide information, advice, services and support people to achieve improved personal outcomes. Strategic and intermediate outcomes have been developed to assist us to meet statutory obligations, prioritise resources and ultimately, to improve how we deliver services to optimise personal outcomes for people. In delivering this commitment we recognise that we face particular challenges. For example, we know that around 40,000 of our citizens live in the 15% most deprived areas in Scotland and, as the Christie Commission reported, 32% of adults in these areas are likely to have a long-standing illness (compared to only 14% in more affluent areas). Also, the proportion of our population over 85 years is expected to almost double within the next 20 years. We know that an ageing population and the effects of deprivation combine to increase the demands on health and social care services. People are living longer with increased ill-ill- health and frailty and people in areas of multiple deprivation are likely to experience the long term conditions associated with ageing at an earlier stage. As Unpaid carers are key partners in the number delivery of older people increases the number of people living with dementia will also increase. There has been a recent drive to ensure that dementia is diagnosed health and work in underway to reduce variation social care across the city. As more people are diagnoseda result of demographic and social changes, preventative services can be offered which help people to live independent and healthier lives for longer. The range of specialist services in the community which meet the needs of older people with advanced dementia is improving and this role will become increasingly relied upon at a time when carers are being supported to prevent crisis situations which result in emergency respite in care homesalso ageing and also require services and support. Our service users and their families and carers expect higher quality and more choice than previously. We know that people increasingly expect the same variety, choice and flexibility that they receive from the business sector. Our immediate outcomes and indicators of performance are organised under four themes β Reshaping Care for Older People (Change Fund for Older People), Personalisation, Carers and Protection. These themes follow the national policy framework and contextualise it to our local circumstances. The Reshaping Care for Older People Programme is an integrated and comprehensive whole systems framework. One of its main strategic objectives is to support older people to achieve and maintain independent, safe, healthy and fulfilling lives in a homely setting. In order to achieve this we will continue to provide intensive (ten hours or more per week) homecare. In order to meet the demand which is anticipated to shift from the acute sector and demographic change, we will increase the number of people receiving Intensive Homecare by 5% and Enablement by 15% each year until 2017. We want to reduce unnecessary unscheduled hospital admissions and we have committed to reducing the emergency episodes and bed days for people aged over 65% by 2% each year until 2017. It is recognised that this is a challenging task as demographic, social and economic changes mean that we now need to provide more with less resources. Our revised models of care are much more outcome focussed, integrated and collaborative with a much stronger emphasis on anticipatory care, early intervention and rehabilitation. In order for this to be achieved people who use our services and their carers need to be partners in care planning and in control of their futures. We will revise how we provide services to encourage more choice and control.
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Sources: Single Outcome Agreement