Older People’s Engagement in Dorset
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Dorset Partnership for Older People Project (POPP)
The vision of POPP is to build supportive communities to enable Older People to remain living in their own homes for as long as they wish by developing responsive, appropriate, services and activities at a local level.
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Leadership Programme
The Leadership Programme is part of Dorset Partnership for Older people Project (POPP). Dorset has been broken down into 33 clusters to ensure local focus and delivery for all elements of the Programme.
Help and Care manages the Leadership Programme, it supports Community Leaders in working alongside Older People in their local communities, to identify their needs and opportunities for positive change.
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Community Leaders
The role of the Community Leader is about ‘challenging and changing’ services.
Each cluster has one Community Leader who is paid to work seven hours per week. Some Leaders cover more than one cluster.
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Leaders do this by:
- Attending meetings of service providers and reflecting the needs and views of older people
- Going to local meetings of older people to share and pass on useful information.
- Identifying resources and needs within communities
- Supporting the development of new services and opportunities.
The leaders have supported and developed many clubs and schemes, such as:
- Voluntary transport schemes
- Computer clubs
- Lunch clubs
- Social groups
- Good neighbour schemes
- 50+ Forums
The Community Leaders are constantly working with service planners and providers to suggest how services could be improved, for example, transport services, hospital discharge, domiciliary care.
Dorset POPP is funded by Dorset County Council and Dorset NHS.