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Experience Counts

Experience Counts: Haringey's strategy for improving the quality of life for older people 2005 - 2010

Experience Counts is a strategy that has been developed to tackle discrimination and to promote positive attitudes towards ageing in Haringey so that by 2010 "older people are enabled to be as informed, active, healthy and independent as possible and empowered citizens at the heart of the community".

Experience Counts covers all aspects of older people's lives represented by the ten goals below. Not all older people will identify with all of the goals all of the time, however, most will identify with at least one of them. Priorities to achieve each of these goals have been identified for the period 2005 - 2008.

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Being respected: to ensure that older people are respected and valued
Keeping informed: to ensure that older people have accurate information on which to base their decisions
Staying healthy: to promote healthy living
Being active: to create opportunities for being active, including getting involved, volunteering, socialising and life long learning
Choosing work: to create opportunities for employment
Feeling safer: to create safer communities
Having a safe, comfortable and well maintained home: to ensure that older people have a safe, comfortable and well-maintained home (and garden) which meets their needs
Living with support: to enable older people to live independently with support for as long as possible in their own homes
Getting out and about: to ensure that older people are able to get out and about, including being able to use public transport
Making the most of your income: to enable older people to maximise their income.

Experience Counts is a strategy aimed at:

Active and independent older people: some of whom have completed their career in paid employment or child rearing; others may still be working or have caring responsibilities. Some older people remain active and independent into late old age; others may not.

Older people who are vulnerable: some of whom may have ill health or long-term conditions such as diabetes and dementia, or social care needs, or a combination of both.

This strategy was developed using a 'bottom - up' approach with the support of older people working in partnership with statutory and voluntary sector organisations. It will be monitored through the Haringey Strategic Partnership and the key priorities within each goal will be reviewed annually.

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Review of Experience Counts

We are launching a review of Experience Counts on 10 September 2008 with a special event.
This will be an opportunity to look at how the strategy, with its goals, priorities and actions has progressed since its launch in 2005. It will also help us to think about how we move the strategy forward to 2010, with a chance to put forward suggestions for updating the action plan to ensure that the strategy continues to make a difference to the lives of older people in Haringey.

The original reference group who played a key role in developing the vision, goals and priorities of the strategy will be reconvened. This includes older residents, users of social care services, representatives from the Haringey Forum for Older People, voluntary sector organisations such as Age Concern and the Older People’s Partnership Board, as well as representatives from organisations within the Haringey Strategic Partnership.

For more information, please visit Have Your Say Haringey’s current consultations calendar.

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Attached Files
Filename	Filetype	Size
experience counts strategy full document.pdf	PDF	688K
experience counts summary.pdf	PDF	251K
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