RESHAPING CARE FOR OLDER PEOPLE Community Resilience work-strand Antonia Baird Argyll Voluntary Action AVA community resilience

RESHAPING CARE FOR OLDER PEOPLECommunity Resilience work-strandAntonia BairdArgyll Voluntary Action

AVA community resilience

Reshaping Care for Older People• 7 Community Resilience Officers• Enabling the shift of services to the community• Linking H&SC and third sector organisations.


Empowerment• Grey Matters• Co-production• Local groups delivering local services for themselves.


• ‘We are able to have our say – and people listen to us. We make the decisions about what we need and we are heard. With Grey Matters it belongs to us’

• MM and Jean, both over 80, talking to Annabel Goldie


Enablement• Linking with information• Linking with representation• Creating links between communities of geography and interest• Showcase events


Co-production• Working together to create new opportunities• Connecting the sectors and using the skills of communities• An asset based approach


Grey Matters


Lunch Bunch…soup groups and outings• Created by timebank volunteers• Safe place for adults with who are frail• Feed the person and the mind!• Mostly self-financing.


‘I really look forward to the community lunches – our lunch bunch are growing every time so now over 30 of us are meeting up’Mary, 84


Community Shop• ‘Helping out at the Community Shop means I feel useful again

and involved with my Community – I have a purpose – I am DOING something’

• Dennis, 86


Visiting Friends• A new volunteer befriending scheme for older people launched

in Helensburgh• Emphasis on companionship/ targeting isolated seniors• Volunteers matched with client

VolunteerTraining forVisiting Friends


Safe at Home• A new telephone assurance service operating in Helensburgh

for older people , recently discharged from hospital• Volunteers make a call to see if the person may need a

prescription collection or any shopping• Aimed to make the transition from hospital to home easier.


Partnership working• Sharing resources and expertise• Integrating services for the benefit of older people• Combatting social isolation• Supporting re-ablement and rehabilitation


Falls Prevention• Taking falls prevention messages out into the community


Impact• First year:• Over 600 people involved in volunteering projects• 200 new timebankers• 200+ older people supported with friendship opportunities, practical

help from getting lifts to hanging curtains and support to air their views.Second year:• Continue development of opportunities for• Exercise• Stimulation• Friendship• Policy input • co-production of local services – new Shed and Safe at Home project


‘Timebank and Grey Matters means I have a reason to get up in the morning’

Sarah, 87


‘Volunteering with the young people keeps me young, its lovely they spend time with us and I feel I still have something to offer,’

Grace, 81



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RESHAPING CARE FOR OLDER PEOPLE Community Resilience work-strand Antonia Baird Argyll Voluntary Action AVA community resilience