VarSeq 2.6.0: Advancing Pharmacogenomics and Genomic Analysis
Priorities for Local Action
1. Priorities for local action
1) Increasing physical activity and reducing injurious falls
2) Ensuring holistic approaches and care for older
peoples’ mental health
3) Strengthening a place-based approach to healthy
ageing
4) Avoiding admissions for people with multiple
conditions and complex needs
2. Table 1: Increasing physical activity and reducing
injurious falls
1. Follow the vision. Commit to a shift from acute
• Prevention
• Environmental changes
2. Community Resilience – to address the barriers and
join up CR across the system.
3. Lifecourse Approach
4. Communication
5. Early Identification
3. Table 2: Ensuring holistic approaches and care for older
peoples’ mental health
1. Getting people more connected in their community.
2. Volunteering
• Older people as an asset
• More volunteers
3. Access to information.
4. Involve and include carers and recognise their value.
5. Needs assessment to inform collective and integrated
planning at strategic and local level.
6. Dementia Action Alliance and training lever for well-
being training.
4. 1. Multi-disciplinary approach to planning process
• Proactive
• Responsive (national drivers)
2. Location of benches – where they’re needed.
3. Highlight and develop good practice re: digital
inclusion and intergenerational opportunities.
4. Technology students meeting and working with older
people
5. Dialogue with private sector organisations on
embedding dementia – friendly approaches
• Building on international expertise and research available
locally.
Table 3: Strengthening a place-based approach to healthy
ageing
5. Table 4: Avoiding admissions for people with multiple
conditions and complex needs
1. Develop empowered patients, find out what they
want and need and what would happen if things go
wrong.
2. Through use of frailty score/tool/method to jointly
identify or ‘case find’ people who may be vulnerable.
3. Develop one shared joint plan which includes housing
and involves family and patient.
4. Separate end of life plan shared record/named
contact and lead professional.
5. Learn from when
inappropriate/unwanted/unwelcome admission eg
urgent care dashboard.