Mervyn TaylorThird Age Seminar

EU Commission – Dublin2nd March 2012

Perspectives of a Pathfinder

PROVIDERS OF

CitizenCommunity Corporate

PROVIDED FOR

“Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward”. Soren Kierkegaard

Young Turk to Old Fart

Identity Politics

Spaces & PlacesCitizen Space Market Place Home Place

The Citizen Space

Womb to Tomb

The OECD ...is grá geal my chroí

Potential for the public service ‘to become more focused on its contribution to the achievement of broader citizen-centred societal outcomes.’

OECD Public Management Reviews: Ireland – Towards an Integrated Public Service

Understanding the Life CycleInter-Connectedness & Complexity

HHHHomeHospiceHospital HotelHospitality

HFH STANDARDSPatientStaffFamilyHospital

HOSPICEHolisticPhysical PsychologicalSpiritualSocial

FORUM on END of LIFESocialHealthEconomicLegislativeAdministrativeEducationalCulturalReligious

ELDER COUNCILSSocial ConnectionsServicesTransport & MobilitySafety, Security, CrimeIncome & Financial Resources

NESCHuman Services SectorsEldercareEnd-of-life careDisabilityPolicing

Unravelling the Life Cycle

The challenge: ‘how to wrap supports around the individual based on where they are in the lifecycle’ NESC

Public Services

• Pilots• Public Service Excellence Awards• Philanthropic Funds• Caution• Help-Desk• Senior Civil Service• Regulation• One size fits all• Service Model• Evidence Base• Anecdote• Committed to maintaining status

quo

Services with & for Public

• ‘Airports’ / Clustering• Public Service Innovation Network• Innovation (R&D) Funds • Challenge (Internal) • Pathfinders & Guides• Oversight by ‘Elders’ (PIRs)• Personalisation• Self-Management• Logic Models: Inputs-Outputs-Outcomes• Evidence informed / Values Base• Experience based• Committed to Improvising adapting and

overcoming in the face of adversity

Changing Public Services‘The Search for Actions with Leverage’

Croke Park – Whose Agreement?

‘The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic’.Peter Drucker

The Market Place

“You can’t buck the markets’

…but you can develop new ones

“All are free to sleep under bridges…it’s just that the rich choose not to”

Anatole France

Self-Management

“..rather than giving fixed budgets to traditional public service providers like the HSE, VECs and Fás, we will put resources into the hands of citizens to acquire services that are tailored to better suit their needs and less expensive for the taxpayer”Programme for Govt

Monetising Culture …..& Care

“We need more people …..who are less diffident in the presence of technology. There are not enough articulate Luddite, anti-technology voices.”Dr David Gelernter. Pioneering Computer Scientist. Economist 3rd Feb 2011 http://www.economist.com/node/21540383

QuaNGOs …..Culling me softly?

The Home Space

A Life Apart

‘the fate which for some older people precedes death – confined to a bed in an open ward in an old building eating dinner on one side of a curtain while on the other side a person uses a commode’.

Dr Maurice ManningPresident

Irish Human Rights Commission

“What I would like to see is community based trusts developing new innovation models embedded in local communities and finding ways to do this that at least won’t be more expensive than current private care costs- otherwise the idea will be shelved as being too expensive”Anonymous

Building for Generations to Come

Ar scáth a chéile a mhairimíd

We live in each other’s shadow