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Chapter 3 – Effective interventions<br />

Case study 17<br />

Home Shield Suffolk<br />

This is a service provided by a partnership of organisations who work together to provide <strong>for</strong> all the unmet<br />

needs of vulnerable older people who are visited in their homes by a person from one of the partnership<br />

organisations. Simple and cheap to run, the only significant cost is that of providing a co-ordinator.<br />

Vulnerable older people benefit greatly from this integrated service. For example, if a client was visited by<br />

the Pension Service to help them claim <strong>for</strong> Attendance Allowance, the visitor might notice that the client’s<br />

front door is not secure, or that there is no smoke detector or that the client has not seen anyone <strong>for</strong><br />

weeks. One referral through Home Shield will put other relevant organisations in touch with the client,<br />

so they can benefit from services such as Key Safe from the local Handy Van scheme, ten-year smoke<br />

alarms from the Fire Service and befriending through Age Concern.<br />

Case study 18<br />

Supported housing <strong>for</strong> older people<br />

Built in partnership with Hert<strong>for</strong>dshire County Council and Welwyn Garden City Housing Association, Swan<br />

Field C<strong>our</strong>t is a fully self-contained purpose-built supported housing scheme <strong>for</strong> older people with mild to<br />

moderate dementia.<br />

Located in the grounds of the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, the building contains ten flats. Eight are<br />

one-bedroom and two are two-bedroom properties, suitable <strong>for</strong> couples or a single person living with a<br />

carer. Every resident referred to the unit had been occupying an acute or community hospital bed.<br />

This is the first unit of its kind in Hert<strong>for</strong>dshire.<br />

With regard to housing conditions, the UK Fuel Poverty Strategy together with winter fuel payments and other<br />

energy efficiency measures aim to end fuel poverty among the elderly by 2010 (UK Fuel Poverty Strategy,<br />

4th Annual Progress Report, 2006).

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