Wiltshire Assembly, Better Care for Older People - Pledges
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Bournemouth Churches Housing Association
To identify customers and help them to achieve what they want from their lives and
support
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Wiltshire Centre for Independent Living
To continue to provide Peer Support and Peer monitoring so that those with the 'lived
experience' can support others in a practical and informative manner that
compliments professionals and supports the change in the balance of power
To support Healthwatch and joint working where applicable
Pledge: Healthwatch
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Wiltshire Libraries
Ensure all library staff undertake the Dementia Friends training by March 2015
Support information provision to the public to raise awareness of the role of
Healthwatch
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Selwood Lifeline
To continue to give elderly/vulnerable people support and be respectable and always
willing to go the extra mile
To be more aware of Healthwatch Wiltshire so I can pass information on
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Wiltshire Council
Carry on teaching extend and being a dementia champion
Tell people about HWW
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Wiltshire Citizens Advice
To provide information to users/clients, and to provide services based on need e.g..
Financial support, carer's support
Work in partnership, maintain and provide feedback on issues raised by CAB client
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Salisbury City Council
Work with my councillors to enable them to consider the issues
Draw their website and services to the attention of my colleagues
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Community First
Develop, enhance and support our Wiltshire Good Neighbour Service
Ensure we feed-in useful information from older and vulnerable clients
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Somerset Care
By participating in the area board Health and Wellbeing event and ensure we support
promotion directly with our customers including self funders
By promoting its work via our customer newsletter
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Chairman, Health Select Committee, Wiltshire Council
Become a dementia friend
Continue regular meetings
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
We will support health and wellbeing of older people by developing programmes that
actively engage people with the natural world wildlife of Wiltshire
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Community First and Wiltshire Good Neighbours
My job is to help the elderly remain independent with a good quality of life and reduce
social isolation with the introduction of community social groups and lunch clubs
To get members of my community groups to voice their views as the over 60's
Pledge: Healthwatch
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Wiltshire Farm Foods
To continue creating Wiltshire farm food lunch clubs within the local area to
encourage social dining amongst older people
To continue promoting our meal service within the local area to ensure those that
need it most know it is available to them
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Calne Health and Social Care Forum (part of Calne C.A.P)
Support local initiatives in the Calne Area e.g.. Calne Memory Group and any other
identified need to help lonely older people and provide any information about support
from statutory and voluntary organizations
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Wiltshire CIL
To help provide information older people need in the community to be in control f their
lives
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Devizes Link
Increase usage of the service
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Elizabeth House Social Centre-Salisbury
Desire to offer services that will keep older people active and address 'loneliness'
Work with them to get people's views on their lifestyles and needs
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Wiltshire Care Partnership
Active Ageing should be enabled wherever people live - including in care homes and
my organisation will support that aspiration
To work in close partnership to maintain and develop the highest possible standards
of safe, quality care
Pledge: Healthwatch
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Aster Living
Support our tenants through housing engagement to link up with local community
teams
To contact Chris to see/explore ways of working in Partnership
Pledge: Healthwatch
Alzheimer's Society
To try and receive additional funds for 'Movement for the Mind' so that we can have
another group in another area of Wiltshire - equity of service
To cascade down information from today to teams with Alzheimer's support
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Aster Living
To volunteer my time - be there more to support people
Support and contribute to any inspection etc.
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Wiltshire Council
Support inter-generational work - particularly to reduce isolation and loneliness
To work with Healthwatch Wiltshire in relation to hearing and acting on the views of
children and young people
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Chair Healthwatch
I will support my neighbours more actively
I will continue to volunteer
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Wiltshire CCG
I will work harder to reach out to public and patients so that they have greater
influence over the services we commission for them
I will work more closely with Healthwatch to ensure our engagement work
complements what they are doing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Wiltshire CCG
To take a client centered approach to delivering the work plan and plan to support the
delivery of the dementia strategy
To work in an open and transparent way with Healthwatch
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
(to support EOL) Work in partnership to support patients choice in terms of place to
die and to work with council/CCG to improve systems to support delivery/achievement
of this - specifically 'fast track CHC' - aspire same day/max 48hrs. Packages of care
Work in partnership to understand how we can improve engagement in service redesign/service delivery from existing patients and citizens
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Melksham Area Board
Introducing 'No Cold Calling' zones across Melksham, introducing 'Safe Places' in the
town and Work towards making Melksham Dementia Friendly
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Carer Support Wiltshire
Through our community-based social support groups, cafes and activities
By working in partnership to ensure carers voices continue to influence service
development
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
BA13 Community Area Partnership
Our Community plan is being re-written to include the latest JSA information for the
Westbury area. We are working with the Area Board Community to list what is already
being worked on and by whom and where the gaps are
We (WCAP) have met with Chris Graves and are looking forward to her proposal to
work closer together
Pledge: Healthwatch
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Mediva
Ensure we are engaging and consulting with all of the residents about how the
services we provide meet their needs and wants
Cooperate fully with their 'Enter and View' policy
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Victim Support
Promote Safe Places in Wiltshire - Working in conjunction with dementia - before I
forget and Alzheimers awareness teams, ensuring people are all confident and Safe
in their communities/Improving quality of life
Raise awareness within our volunteer network to promote Healthwatch participation
when visiting appropriate age group
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases
Build Closer links between specialist hospital and primary with social care in liaison
with our patients
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Wiltshire Community of Safety Partnership
To help develop safer communities, involving the people themselves in the solutions
Tell more people about their need to feed information into them to help improve
services
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Marlborough Area Board
Ensure Active Ageing is high on the agenda for the Area Board
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Leonard Cheshire Disability
Joint working with other voluntary sector agencies to improve provision of activities to
support health promotion and active living
Share information appropriately and work in an open way with Healthwatch
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Aster Living
Help people to live at home by offering support around the home to live independently
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Healthwatch Wiltshire
To ensure the voice of older people are heard and that their wishes are passed on to
those who can act to change current practices
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Community First and Wiltshire Good Neighbours
Continue to incorporate inclusive and empowering practice into my role
To work alongside Healthwatch to ensure my/our clients have a say on the services
that they depend upon
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Wiltshire Council
Continue to produce an older persons JSA, Healthy ageing strategy
Work in partnership, include in service redesign
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Community First and Wiltshire Link Schemes
Actively publicise the work of the Link Schemes across Wiltshire - Firstly to keep
people able to attend appointments and also to keep active and volunteer to keep
active and healthy
I will help to make more older people aware of Healthwatch and the great job they do
to get quality care
Pledge: Healthwatch
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Wiltshire Council
To ensure all people have the information to support them and how to access the
information and to respect the individual's wishes
To support Healthwatch and to 'inspect' various organizations involved with older
people (Safeguarding)
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Wiltshire Council
Via my engagement on the Council Health Select (Scrutiny) Committee
To monitor the performance of Healthwatch via my activity on the Council Health
Select Committee
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Aster Communities
Housing associations own or manage around 30,000 home in the country, ranging
from family housing through to sheltered/extra care. We have access to large
numbers of people who the health and wellbeing board will want to target. We also
offer grants which
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Bradford on Avon Town Council
To make Bradford on Avon a dementia friendly town
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Community First
Together with our partners to develop the Good Neighbour Service to engage
volunteers in communities to maximise the opportunities to support and engage older
people within their community
To work with Healthwatch to pilot work through the Community Organisers, hosted by
Community First, to 'listen' to people in communities and act as a conduit for
information and consultation
Pledge: Healthwatch
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
WSON
Publicise events, activities and promote health and wellbeing. Working in providing
opportunities for older people to 'have their say'
Provide opportunities to engage and feedback from service users about a range of
services
WrTC and WC
Already 70! Have already cared for 3 elderly relatives; care for my son with severe
MH illness; and a very sick husband for whom I am carer
Already support Healthwatch Wiltshire in my role of local Cllr, member of Comm
Partnership, and contact on my social housing estate
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Wiltshire CCG (AD commissioning, N+E Wiltshire)
To become a dementia friend
To work with HWW in my role as a NHS Commissioner and in particular to involve
HWW in my service redesign work
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Action on Hearing Loss (RNID)
Look to provide information and advice where possible both online and within other
public services
Raise the profile of people with hearing loss within the CCG and local authorities
Pledge: Healthwatch
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
Wiltshire Forum of Community Area Partnerships - supporting the Area Boards
To share information on successful projects, to share information on possible funds,
to share information about Health and Wellbeing Board and CCG, and to support and
promote engagement and consultation
To share information with people interested in Health and Social Care in theme
groups across Wiltshire Community Area Partnerships and the Third/Voluntary sector.
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Organisation
Pledge: Active Ageing
Pledge: Healthwatch
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Pledge: Active Ageing
Pewsey Community Area Partnership supporting Pewsey Area Board
Working on a dementia friendly campaign across the Pewsey Vale including
businesses and Parish Councils.
Continue to support and care for 94 year old mother, in order for her to be as active
and as independent as possible in her own home and attempt to stay healthy myself
Continue to act as a volunteer and spread information about the Healthwatch
Healthwatch Wiltshire
To ensure as many older people as possible have the opportunity to share their views
on the services they use!