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“<br />
groups<br />
What County Louth did:<br />
Mary Deery, <strong>Age</strong> <strong>Friendly</strong> Coordinator in County Louth set<br />
the bar high with the wide ranging consultations that took<br />
place in Louth, Ireland’s first <strong>Age</strong> <strong>Friendly</strong> County.<br />
“We held consultations with older people’s groups in<br />
Drogheda, Dundalk, Ardee and the Cooley Peninsula.<br />
People were invited from older people’s groups, advocacy<br />
and voluntary services,” explains Deery.<br />
Mary Deery put together a toolkit of the entire <strong>Age</strong><br />
<strong>Friendly</strong> County programme in Louth which won<br />
a Taoiseach’s Public Service Excellence Award.<br />
This is available on www.agefriendly.ie Follow the<br />
”<br />
links to Louth, How to become an <strong>Age</strong> <strong>Friendly</strong><br />
County/ Resources and then the entire toolkit is in<br />
a pdf file. It has lots of detail on the consultation<br />
process that many will find useful.<br />
“<br />
Sarah Wetherald, <strong>Age</strong> <strong>Friendly</strong> Regional Consultant “Some<br />
counties will need to set up an implementation group to work<br />
on the consultations as the <strong>Age</strong> <strong>Friendly</strong> County Coordinator<br />
won’t necessarily have sufficient resources to do it alone.<br />
In these cases, the <strong>Age</strong> <strong>Friendly</strong> Alliance members will<br />
request a staff member to work with the <strong>Age</strong> <strong>Friendly</strong> County<br />
Coordinator to plan and host the consultation. These people<br />
are likely to be health promotion officers in the HSE , sergeants<br />
within the Gardai, social inclusion officers in the local authority<br />
and other staff members in voluntary agencies.”<br />
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