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Healthy Ireland for Louth Plan 2018-2022

Increase the proportion of people who are healthy at all
Goal 4:
stages of life

Shared Wellbeing

Objective 10 (LECP / 274): Increase the impact HI Outcome: Support, link and further improve
and effectiveness of informal and formal existing partnerships and initiatives that aim to
community care services for older people support older people to maintain, improve or
including home care packages manage their physical and mental wellbeing.
Support, link and further improve existing
partnerships, strategies and initiatives that
aim to remove barriers to participation and to
provide more opportunities for the involvement
Objective 10 (LECP / 278): Build on the of older people in all aspects of cultural,
Genio-supported ‘Flourishing with Dementia’ economic and social life in their communities
collaborative programme to foster a ‘dementia
friendly’ supportive environment

Local Measure/
No. Action Responsibility Timeline
Indicator

96 Consultation: Develop a dementia LOPF: Supported by the 2018 • Awareness programme
awareness programme for families and Birches / HSE developed and
carers of people with dementia to support evaluated
their client/loved one through the health
journey
97 RHSR: Implement the IPS Prisoner Release AFA: Supported by 2018-2022 • Pilot project developed
Policy to ensure care, treatment and Community Mental and delivered
information is provided for older people Health Services
leaving prison. This will include links with • Learnings taken from
the community mental health services the pilot applied
98 RHSR: Improve the response to the needs of AFA: Supported by 2018-2022 • No. of projects delivered
older people with long-term substance use LDAF through the various
issues possible grant schemes
and the HI fund
99 Consultation: Support mental health and AFA / LOPF 2018-2022 • No. of projects delivered
wellbeing actions for older people living in through the various
isolated rural areas including pre-retirement possible grant schemes
planning connecting individuals to their and the HI fund
communities and the business community
100 Consultation: Support informal family AFA: Supported by HSE 2018-2022 • No. of programmes
carers through formal & informal supports / LOPF supported
101 Consultation: Create training programmes LLP / DSP 2018-2022 • Training programmes
for early school leavers to become home complete
helps for older people. Similar to the Ogra
Programme

102 LECP 288: Extend "The Parlour" and "Men's LCDC supported by AFA 2016 • Increased flexible
Sheds" initiatives across the county to / HSE / DkIT employment
enhance social connectedness opportunities for older
people

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