Surrey County Council unveils £10 million care plan
ELDERLY people in Surrey will be helped to stay longer in their homes as part of a £10 million care plan.
Surrey County Council will use the money to also give the disabled and those with mental health problems more choice and independence.
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A £10 million plan to help Surrey's elderly and vulnerable has been unveiled
Surrey's leader David Hodge used the county council's annual meeting on May 8 to announce the £2m-a-year investment.
Projects the money could be used for include:
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- Providing telecare round the clock to keep people safe at home and facilities at leisure centres for disabled people.
- Establishing eight more advice centres run for and by disabled people, taking the total to 11
- Combining day care services to help people continue living in their communities
- Developing more support for people with mental health problems.
"By working as one team and by setting aside boundaries that cross the public sector we will achieve the best outcomes for the residents of Surrey."
The money will be used to work with Surrey's districts and boroughs to deliver the various support projects.
Joan Spiers, leader of Reigate & Banstead Borough Council, said: "I am really delighted that the county council is providing this funding to ensure better support for our residents.
"We already work very closely with the county council and will soon be sharing office space so we can work together even more closely to achieve a better quality of life for our residents."
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by mvmashtead
Wednesday, May 09 2012, 5:26PM
“"ELDERLY people in Surrey will be helped to stay longer in their homes as part of a £10 million care plan."
Let's not overdo the back patting bit just yet and perhaps try to consider the LIFETIME HOMES incentive and the good that it has bought many 'Councils that care' over the past years?
The Lifetime Homes Standard seeks to enable 'general needs' housing to provide, either from the outset or through simple and cost-effective adaptation, design solutions that meet the existing and changing needs of diverse households. This offers the occupants more choice over where they live and which visitors they can accommodate for any given time scale.
Once occupied, the adaptability of the dwelling should actually save a household money if needs change and the dwelling is quickly and simply adapted to suit the new set of circumstances. Without Lifetime Homes features, the household may be faced with expensive, complicated and disruptive major adaptation works to a dwelling less suited to change; or possibly (in the case of an existing household) face a forced move to a care home.
This inherent flexibility also represents better value for the wider economy, as a greater supply of such homes can accommodate the changing needs of the growing population of older people and reduce the future need for specialised housing.
Adapting property to suit our senior citizens and to assist them to stay put where they are would assist greatly in taking the weight off the care systems, the hospitals and would also create work for the building trades who are currently feeling like redundant tin miners during this construction drought.”