Older people and quality of life Better life in residential care

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http://www.scie.org.uk/socialcaretv/v... • Key messages for practice • See and treat older people with high support needs as individuals and help them to do the things they want to do. • Build positive relationships with the people you work with. • Look for the strengths and assets each person has and support them to play an active role in the development and provision of services. • Be open to doing things in new ways. • What is the video about? • The video shows older people with high support needs who live in a care home. They talk about what is important in their lives and how they like to be treated. • It is based around the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's (JRF) A Better Life programme. JRF identified seven key challenges to be addressed for older people with high support needs to achieve a better quality of life: • Old age is not about 'them': it is about all of us • Older people are individuals and they are, as a group, becoming more diverse • Relationships matter to us whatever our age; we have a fundamental human need to connect with others meaningfully • Older people with high support needs have many assets, strengths and resources that they can also bring to the development and provision of services • Whatever our age or support needs, we should all be treated as citizens: equal stakeholders with both rights and responsibilities • The individual and collective voices of older people with high support needs should be heard and given power • We need both to innovate and improve existing models • Social care has a key role to play in meeting these challenges. • What is a high support need? • A high support need is where person has one or more health conditions or disabilities that mean they need support from health and/or social care services to live their lives as they want to. • Who will find this useful? • Anyone involved in providing services to older people with high support needs – commissioners, managers, social workers, care workers and educators – and older people with high support needs and their families and carers.

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