Wandworth Local Health and Care Plan - October 2019

26 Our work - Age Well Joined Up Health & Social Care Improve access to intermediate care and reablement services, with better coordination between services. More coordination of community services for people with the most complex health and social care needs, including support for their carers. Improve falls prevention services including an enhanced community exercise programme with access to evidenced based training. Improve health care support to the very frail, including residents in care homes. Map existing health and social care services for frail, older people in the borough. What we will do: The projected increase of people aged 65 or over in the next 20 years. The accumulated impact of behaviours and exposures earlier in life, combined with functional decline leads to increased levels of disease in older people. The rate of hospital admissions for injuries due to falls in those aged 65 and over is significantly higher than the national and regional averages. In Wandsworth, 9,000 people aged 50 years and older are unpaid carers. rox. ople are ng alone = 000,000+ ,000 ster than the overall population le in Wandsworth aged over 65 years Approx. people are living alone = 000,000+ 10,000 ion faster than the ov rall population eople in Wandsworth aged over 65 years