Agenda item - Joint Health & Wellbeing Strategy - Ageing Well - Update

Report of the Director of Public Health (copy attached)

RESOLVED - That the Board notes the current status of the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy outcome measures and activity relating to Ageing Well.

24.1    The Board considered a report of the Director of Public Health providing a update in respect of the Ageing Well Strategy within the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

24.2    Health and Wellbeing Boards had a duty to prepare a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy to describe the vision and strategic aims to address the population needs identified in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). The current Brighton & Hove Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2019-30 was approved by the Board in March 2019 with the vision that ‘Everyone in Brighton & Hove will have the best opportunity to live a healthy, happy and fulfilling life’. In order to deliver that ambition, the strategy had identified a number of outcomes for local people that were reflected under four key areas or themes in the Strategy known as the ‘Wells’: starting well, living well, ageing well, and dying well. The Health and Wellbeing Board has chosen to receive updates on a specific strategy theme at each Board meeting. This will enable the Board to receive a rich picture of health and social care activity in Brighton & Hove relating to the specific ‘Well’. This update report related to Ageing Well.

24.3    Following an overview and summary, the Public Health Programme Manager Ageing Well/Dying Well, David Brindley gave a power point presentation picking out headline points. He was joined by Maxine Thomas Head of Adult and Older People’s Services at Impact Initiatives and Heba Jackson Trust wide Falls Lead, Sussex Community NHS Foundation who were on hand to respond to Member questions.

24.4    Councillor West welcomed this strategy which was comprehensive and sought to encompass different strategies and approaches to this work and the fact that service delivery was designed to help people to be independent. He was struck by the impact of isolation and considered that the measures proposed to address that were valuable and welcome.

24.5    Details were provided regarding how matters had been managed during the pandemic and overall, the strategy had adapted well, the aim had bee to reach as many people as possible and there had been a particular focus on the importance of good nutrition.

24.6    Councillor Galvin stated that having worked in social care for many years it was important to continue toconsolidate this work and to ensure that help was provided to people from across the socio-economic range.

24.7    It was confirmed that work had been undertaken across to integrate work of care teams across the city and future work would build on the connections which were now in place.

24.8    RESOLVED - That the Board notes the current status of the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy outcome measures and activity relating to Ageing Well.