Continuing increase in life expectancy (5 hours a day)

Continuing increase in life expectancy (5 hours a day)

• Continuing increase in life expectancy (5 hours a day)

• Massive implications for health, housing, quality of life, business, education, finance

• Tractable solutions to deliver major economic and societal gains

How do we create a flourishing and sustainable

• How do we create a flourishing and sustainable

• region with an age structure much older than that

• experienced by previous generations?

National Dementia Strategy 2009

• National Dementia Strategy 2009

• Living Well

• With Dementia

What do we do well?

• What do we do well?

• What, and where, are our areas of need?

• What are our future priorities?

• Where should we target new developments?

• http://www.dhcarenetworks.

• org.uk/Dementia/Regions/

• NorthEast/

Between 2008- 2025

• Between 2008- 2025

• 49% increase in people with late onset dementia (national 51%)

• 5% increase in people with early onset dementia (national 15%)

• 60% increase in no of people with dementia who need care home places

• By 2025, 50% people with dementia will be >85

VOICE North: The NE regional research and engagement panel

• VOICE North: The NE regional research and engagement panel

• Involving the public to help us understand:

• Why do we age?

• How do we age?

• How can we make it better?

• harnessing the public’s ideas, experience, expectations and aspirations

Digital Inclusion, Economy and Technology

• Digital Inclusion, Economy and Technology

• EPSRC £12 million

• “Transforming Lives through Digital Inclusion”

• “Design Matters: Inclusive Design for an Ageing Population”: November 19th 09, Centre for Life

• Tackling pensioner poverty – promoting benefit uptake

• Task Groups: supporting dissemination and implementation

• National Strategies – implemented at regional level

• E.g. DWP –Building a Society for All Ages

• Social Care Green Paper