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Case Studies - Older People
RCAN members undertake a range of work in relation to older people and their needs including advice and information services and good neighbour projects.The projects featured here include Gloucestershire's pioneering Village Agents and Suffolk's Good Neighbour Scheme both of which help support and empower older people living in rural communities.
Examples of RCAN members work on older people projects
Gloucestershire Rural Community Council - Village Agents
Village Agents support people aged 50+ living in rural areas of Gloucestershire, bridging the gap between the local community and the statutory or voluntary organisations able to offer help or support.
Suffolk ACRE - Good Neighbour Scheme
The Suffolk Good Neighbour Scheme revolves around a team of volunteers who help their neighbours with such tasks as giving lifts, collecting pensions and prescriptions, befriending, minor household repairs including checking smoke alarms, moving furniture and hanging pictures, a one-off tidy up of a garden, help with pets when someone goes into hospital for a short while, help filling forms and advocacy. Every resident can use the scheme and the only cost to clients is compensation for a car’s running costs. Volunteers give their time freely, rarely more than two hours per volunteer per month.
Humber and Wolds Rural Community Council - facilitating direct involvement of the public in health
The Older Peoples Charter Monitoring Groups engage, by participation and partnership working, effective community involvement in independent scrutiny and monitoring of health and social care services. They enhance the voluntary and community sector’s capacity for strategic engagement with the statutory sector, and promote partnership working and inclusivity between statutory agencies and the communities they serve.
There are more examples of our member’s work in ACRE’s Policy Position Paper on Older People
