Transcript Mearns and Coastal Healthy Living Network

Mearns and Coastal Healthy
Living Network
Ed Garrett
Meg MacKenzie
Sue Briggs
Older people in Aberdeenshire
• Over 75 population due to rise from
18,700 in 2011 to 42,400 in 2033
• People with a stroke to rise from 3,600 in
2010 to 7,100 in 2033
• People with dementia to rise from 3,200 to
6,300 in 2033
(from Aberdeenshire Joint Strategic Needs
Assessment 2012)
What is needed
•
•
•
•
Change Fund
Preventative work
Increased community capacity
Partnership working
The Healthy Living Network
• Started in 2002 with Big Lottery Fund
money
• Working in Mearns area of south
Aberdeenshire
• 2 part time members of staff
• Gradual expansion since 2007 – now
working across Aberdeenshire
• 6 part time members of staff
What we do
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Shopping
Gardening
Cleaning
Handyperson
Exercise groups / health walks
ICT groups
Group for people with dementia
Capacity building
Lunch clubs
Learning
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
ICT groups
Capacity building
Intergenerational work
Informal learning
Volunteers
‘I’ve learnt about older people’
‘It’s an incentive to get out and use your talents.
I’ve learnt patience and the value of what I am
doing through the appreciation of others’.
How it works
• Community development approach
• Involvement of older people
• Team of 80 volunteers
Working together
• Mearns Area Partnership – history of
partnership working
• Family Learning project
How do we know it works
• Outcomes based approach
• Two sets of Social Accounts
• Particular interest in the financial impact of
services and activities
• Social Return on Investment study
Shopping service case study
• T. is in her 80s and has used the shopping service for 4 years. A
relative used to take her out shopping but then he died and taxis
were very expensive. Living in a very rural location and with limited
mobility the shopping service has been ‘indispensable’ in allowing
her to get to the shops once a week. Without this service, she says,
she would not have been able to stay in the home she has been in
for years. In addition by allowing her to have a good and varied diet
the service has meant she has been able to reduce her medication.
But as well as these practical aspects the shopping service and the
volunteers in particular have been a crucial link with the outside
world. Not able to get out any other time the shopping service has
become a day out, a chance to catch up with people in the
community and most importantly the value of the ongoing
relationship with the volunteer.
The figures
• Investment:
• Social value:
• Social return ratio:
£16,447
£229,806.28
13.97