Experience Still Counts
Experience Still Counts: Haringey's strategy for improving the quality of life for older people 2009-2012
Experience Still Counts is a strategy that has been developed to tackle discrimination and to promote positive attitudes towards ageing in Haringey so that by 2012 "older people are enabled to be as informed, active, healthy and independent as possible and empowered citizens at the heart of the community".
Experience Still 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 2009-2012.
Go to Attached Files Section at the bottom of this page to download a copy of Experience Still Counts.
- 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 Still Counts is a strategy aimed at:
Active and independent older people: some of whom have completed their career in paid employment or have fulfilled their child rearing responsibilities; 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.
Experience Still Counts 2009-2012 is the result of a review of Experience Counts, the original strategy for 2005-2010. Once again, older people have been the key drivers in its development, working in partnership with statutory and voluntary sector organisations.
Key themes that emerged from the process include:
- being respected
- having good quality local information
- culturally appropriate care including day opportunities and footcare
- help with repairs around the home
- better and more public toilets
- crime in the back streets, and
- access to help claiming benefits and entitlements
The new strategy will be monitored through the Haringey Strategic Partnership's Older People's Partnership Board and the key priorities within each goal will be reviewed annually.
The new strategy includes an update on local and national developments since 2005, notes achievements from 2005-2008 and sets out priorities for 2009-2012.
Go to the Attached Files section at the bottom of this page to download a copy of Experience Still Counts.
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