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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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