Summer 2008

Partnership for Older People's Project

The Partnership for Older People’s project (POPP) has been designed in conjunction with partner organisations and older people to focus on improving the health and well-being of people over 50 in Calderdale. We know that it makes sense to put more money into preventing ill health to keep people out of hospital and to improve their quality of life. We hope the POPP’s project will show that this works.

When asked how many of them had heard of the POPP’s project prior to receiving the Spring Talkback survey, only a disappointing 13% of panellists said they were aware of the project.

Of those who had heard of the project, 32% had knowledge of the project via the local media, 29% via word of mouth and 17% via the POPP’s Healthy Ageing leaflet.

We then asked if respondents had used or attended a number of the services and schemes offered within the project. The table shows the level of use and opinions of these services:

Use and opinion of services
Service	No, not interested in using them	No, but would be interested in using them	Yes, good	Yes, satisfactory	Yes, poor
Neighbourhood Schemes	44.0%	47.7%	4.6%	2.5%	1.2%
Home from Hospital Service	53.0%	41.8%	3.0%	1.7%	0.5%
Falls Prevention Service	58.6%	38.5%	1.3%	1.1%	0.5%
Health and Well Being of Carers	57.2%	39.1%	2.4%	0.8%	0.5%
Handyperson Service	47.3%	50.5%	1.5%	0.4%	0.3%