A life worth living: care provision for older people in Scotland
Report looking at how we care for older people in Scotland. Key recommendations: - Service providers must consult and engage with Scotland?s people to design cost-effective personalised services - Engineer out costly overlaps in service - Improve our measures of well-being in older age so that we can better track the quality and impact of social and health care provision - Focus on people?s capabilities and shift formal professional care provision towards those with the highest support needs - Support third sector organisations to be more effective participants in the creation of innovative services for our ageing population - Ensure commissioning and tendering rules are more third sector friendly - Government must support and nurture self help and the community capacity building work of the third sector so that older people themselves can contribute much more to the debate about future patterns of care
