Council Consults on plans to support older people

Cheshire West and Chester Council is urging residents to share their views on its draft strategy for ensuring everyone aged fifty-five and over can live safely and age well within their local communities and own homes.

The Council is undertaking a borough wide consultation to support the development of a new Accommodation and Support Strategy. The final strategy will make west Cheshire a place that can support older people by ensuring local accommodation meet the changing needs of an individual as they age and is flexible to adapt to changing physical conditions and health.

The strategy will support:

• accommodation at the centre of vibrant communities for people to live and age well and to promote independence and social inclusion,
• good relationships between all services and communities to meet an individual's needs,
• an infrastructure to deliver flexible care and support in a planned, person-centred way,
• the creation of dementia-friendly environments,
• accommodation that is affordable and sustainable for the future.

Its aims are to improve health, wellbeing and quality of life for older people, ensuring they can access their local community, live in suitable and adaptable accommodation with appropriate care and support, have a range of accommodation choices and get the right level of support at the right time and in the right way.
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There are a number of ways that you can get involved and share your views.

• Complete a surveyHERE
• Email your views to: info@askforresearch.co.uk.
• Share your views by telephone: please call Ask for Research on 01630 658000 and quote 'Ageing Well Accommodation and Support Strategy consultation' (standard phone charges apply or we will be happy to call you back).
• Send your views by letter to: Ask for Research, Pell Wall Court, Pell Wall, Market Drayton, TF9 2AD (please email or phone above to be sent a Freepost envelope if preferred).
• Request a copy of our consultation in alternative formats, including paper and easy read, using the contact details above.

The consultation is open until 28 August 2022. Feedback will help shape the Ageing Well Accommodation and Support Strategy, which will change the way we deliver and commission accommodation and support for Older People living in Cheshire West and Chester. The final strategy will be reviewed by the Council's Cabinet later in the year.

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