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Chapter 2: Consultation and Consolidation<br />

“<br />

County Clare Feedback to Older People: Michael Neylon,<br />

<strong>Age</strong> <strong>Friendly</strong> Coordinator in County Clare invited older<br />

people to a Tea Dance in the Woodstock Hotel in Ennis<br />

in May 2012 to discuss the findings and work out which<br />

ones deserved to be prioritised. “We had organised for<br />

about 150 people to come and 300 turned up. We set up<br />

eight tables under the WHO themes but only five were<br />

filled which in itself showed the priorities of older people<br />

”<br />

in County Clare,” says Neylon.<br />

TIP<br />

Plan Your Timeframe Carefully. One suggestion is to plan the<br />

consultations over two months (Spring or Autumn are ideal<br />

times). Use the following two months to collate and record all<br />

your findings – and have at least one Alliance meeting during<br />

this period. Then, give those who attended the first round of<br />

consultations an opportunity to hear feedback over the next<br />

two/three months. Plan another Alliance meeting at the end<br />

of these feedback sessions. Start writing the Strategy with the<br />

aim to launch it one year after the <strong>Age</strong> <strong>Friendly</strong> programme<br />

was launched.<br />

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