main content Looking ahead to the needs of older people

Earlier this year, Bromley Council asked residents and representative groups of older people to feedback to a Select Committee on Older People’s Independence about the impact of service changes it had made to its care services such as meals services, day care and domiciliary care and changes in eligibility criteria. Engaging with older people across the borough was a crucial part of the work the Select Committee whose recommendations were considered by the Council’s scrutiny committee for Adult and Community Services on 26 September.

The Select Committee’s work is part of the Council’s long term planning to support the independence of older people in Bromley who require care and support because of ill health or disability.

The recommendations are to be considered by the Executive Councillor for Adult and Community Services, Councillor Graham Arthur, in October.

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Notes to editors:

• Report of the Select Committee on the Independence of Older People  
•  Work of the King’s Fund (an independent charitable foundation working for better health, especially in London) set the Select Committee’s work in wider context. 
• The King’s Fund report is entitled: ‘The Business of Caring: King’s Fund Enquiry in to Care Services for Older People in London’ (June 2005) and is available from http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/resources/publications/the_business_of.html
• For media enquiries, please contact Amanda Day, Communications Officer, on 020 8313 4310, or email Amanda.day@bromley.gov.uk