• State of Care is our annual assessment of health care and social care in England
• The report looks at the trends, shares examples of good and outstanding care, and highlights where care needs to improve
• Join Ian to hear more about the key messages from the report and our hopes for the future

• Why – touching on the neuroscience and benefits
• What does musical care look like
• How do we make music an integral part of care
• Resources and tools
• Video extracts

In this session, Dr Lis Boulton will present findings from Age UK’s latest wave of research on older people’s health and care. This research has been conducted every six months since August 2020 and provides a rich source of evidence about how living through the pandemic has affected older people’s lives. From Autumn 2022, this research will provide an annual picture of older people’s concerns, including access to health and care services, changes in physical and mental health, relationships with others, providing care, and the impact of the cost of living crisis on their health. The findings will be tied in with changes to the health and care system, highlighting opportunities to improve older people’s experiences.

• Recommending that the NHS works with care homes to roll out and fund programmes to enable enhanced healthcare services 
• Dedicating appropriate government funding for the development of care home staff 
• Developing and standardising a definition of a care home multidisciplinary team across the UK 
• Ensuring that care home residents are able to access NHS-funded rehabilitation, equipment and other services 

• Addressing high frailty patterns in the area and the increasing risk of dependency on services instead of self-care and self-management 
• Taking a preventative approach to support people with moderate frailty by putting measures in place to encourage greater independence 
• Recognising loneliness and isolation as key indicators for risk and putting in place integrated team working to address health and social issues 
• Establishing the Proactive Care Team to work with partners to provide holistic, person-centred care for people with moderate frailty 
• Using a health intelligence tool to proactively find patients using the frailty system and bring people into the care of a multi-disciplinary team 

• Context - population, impact of covid, ageism, and projected costs
• Explaining where the needs of older adults with mental illness may be different from working age adults
• Discussing where older adults’ mental health fits into the integrated care system
• Sharing information about what is being done to meet these needs

• Developing, creating and delivering a person-centred pathway to support patients living with frailty
• Accessing the highest quality acute care in the right place at the right time and the NHSE Ageing Well strategy
• Assessing people with frailty in a truly holistic way and bridging the gap for patients between hospital and home
• Alternatives to acute hospital admission: providing acute care in the community setting
• Improving outcomes for patients living with frailty