Decision details

The Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Services presented the Older People’s Strategy for 2010 - 2013 entitled “Helping You Live the Life You Want”.

The Strategy outlines the key priorities that the older people of the Borough have identified as most important to them, highlights the achievements so far and sets out in a series of action plans as to how the Council intends to deliver further improvements.  The Strategy also recognises the leadership role the Council has in ensuring older people can live independently and actively, with a good quality of life for as long as possible.

Agreed, in order to assist the Council to achieve all of its Community Priorities, to:

  (i)  Adopt the Older People’s Strategy for 2010 - 2013; and

  (ii)  Endorse the improvement action plans which will the subject of quarterly monitoring and an annual progress report.