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Quality of Later Life
Learning in care settings revisited
| Date: | Tuesday 10 July 2007 |
| Venue: | Abbey Community Centre, 34 Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BU |
| Ref: | C14-59/07/07 |
| Fee*: | £155; £135 for NIACE Members; £65 for Pensioner,
unwaged (includes lunch, tea/coffee) |
[Background & Aims] [Audience] [Programme]
Background
The Opportunity Age Quality of Life Indicators include access to education. This is also now part of the Inspection process for older people’s care provision. This event will explore the current depth and breadth of education provision for older people in care settings; - how it is being resourced, informed and sustained. The event will reflect back on the previous events held in 1999 and 2003 to see what has developed in that time and where some of the initiatives and programmes featured then are. In addition we will look at the current policy climate for the future of such provision.
More immediately
Sustaining acceptable standards of quality of life for older people has been
a key element of older people's policy expressed by Government in Opportunity
Age. NIACE has long maintained that education in later life should be an
integral part of those standards. Recent changes in focus of education spending
and the latest LSC participation data indicate that older people are less likely
to benefit from formal education unless imaginative, targeted and collaborative
ways are found to deliver and fund meaningful programmes. For older people in
care and dependency settings where care, welfare and health issues may
predominate creating and sustaining education programmes is thus even more
problematic. The inclusion of learning within inspection procedures, however,
creates the opportunity to influence those procedures and encourage care
providers to develop education programmes with those older people for whom they
have a responsibility.
The conference aims to:
 | determine how current social, health, education and older people's policies, actions and procedures can help create and sustain education programmes for older people. |
| review progress since the last NIACE event on this theme in 2003 Quality of later life. |
| look at some current good practice. |
| review what has happened to initiatives featured at previous events. |
| determine what local structures, strategy groups and forums need to be influenced to embed work in this area. |
What delegates will get out of the event?
A greater awareness of current work in this area, what is achievable and
how, what obstacles exist and how they can be overcome, what funding might exist
and what partnerships, strategic and funding plans need to be influenced.
How delegates can use the information gained from the event when they get back to their institutions:
| contacting relevant local partnerships to ensure that education programmes of this nature are considered |
| considering possible alternative funding opportunities. |
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Audience
This event will be of value to all those working on education and activity programmes with older people, those people creating, funding, delivering or inspecting care provision for older people and those examining or working on quality of later life issues.
| education providers, funders and planners. |
| health, housing and social care providers and inspection services. |
| older people's organisations. |
| older people (reduced conference fee or bursary is available). |
| activity organisers. |
| occupational therapists. |
| voluntary and community organisations working with and for older people. |
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Programme
| 09:30 | Arrival and registration (tea/coffee available) |
| 10:00 | Welcome, introduction and
setting the scene Morning Chair: Jim Soulsby, Development Officer - Older & Bolder Programme, NIACE |
| 10:20 | Keynote address: Achieving
quality in later life – “home” life, engagement and learning Paul Cann, Director of Policy, Help the Aged |
| 11:00 | Questions and answers |
| 11:15 | Comfort break |
| 11:30 | Workshops 1. Later life learning National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People (NAPA) 2. My Home Life improving quality of life Help the Aged Programme 3. Later life learning in BUPA provision 4. Developing a qualification framework for care staff that includes later life learning City & Guilds 5. Hearing from the learners Genesis Housing, Bromley Adult Education Service |
| 12:30 | Lunch and networking |
| 13:30 | Keynote address: learning in
care settings for older people – an equality issue Prof. Jo Bornat, Open University |
| 14:00 | Workshops (repeated) |
| 15:00 | Plenary session - workshop feedback |
| 15:20 | Questions, answers and final planning |
| 15:45 | Close of conference (tea/coffee available) |
This programme is correct at the time of going to press. The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the published programme in the event of one or more of the advertised speakers being unable to attend. Delegates will have no claim against NIACE in respect of such changes.
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