Programme

Opening Remarks from the Chair:

Oliver James, Broadcaster, Journalist & Author of ‘Contented Dementia’ (Confirmed)

Morning Keynote Address: Building a Society for all Ages – Next Steps for Implementation

• A vision for a society for all ages
• The fastest growing group in employment – re-skilling
• The Age Positive Initiative - Retention, Promotion, Training and Development
• An interactive ‘one stop shop’ for helping people plan ahead
• Active at 60 – smartcard technology to provide all-in one cards
• A £20 million learning transformation fund
• A Families and Relationships Green Paper
• A review of the Default Retirement Age
• The Innovation and Growth Team alongside an Age Design Programme
• Improving financial support – state pension reform
• The role of Job Centre Plus and Care Partnership managers
• Diversity of older people – ensuring different groups are represented in the consultation
• Results from the consultation period – regional and local consultation events
• The opportunities presented by our longer, healthier and happier lives

Angela Eagle MP, Minister of State for Pensions and the Ageing Society     
 (Confirmed)

Delivering World Class Commissioning for Older People's Healthcare

• World class commissioning in challenging times
• The Integrated Care Pilots - designing services that are flexible, personalised and seamless
• Cohesive, pro-active and personalised care for older and vulnerable people
• Improving integration between different IT systems to allow real-time sharing of data
• Alignment of financial incentives and managerial accountability to best support integrated working
• Early diagnosis of long term conditions - screening and imaging services
• Collaboration and partnership with industry to deliver innovative healthcare solutions to the elderly
• Halting the mounting financial burden of institutional care by using high-tech diagnostic equipment linked by the internet
• Improving access to GP services

Gary Belfield, Acting Director General for Commissioning and System Management, Department of Health (Confirmed)

Hampshire: A National Dementia Demonstrator Site

• Living well with Dementia: A National Dementia Strategy
• Hampshire – a demonstrator site
• The Dementia Advisor Service and Peer Support Networks
• Dementia Advisors – helping people with dementia and their families to navigate the care and support system
• Peer Support Network – testing different ways of providing practical and emotional support
• A dementia cafe – a place where people with dementia and their carers can meet up, share practical information and provide support
• Supporting the delivery of the Joint Hampshire Commissioning Strategy for Older Peoples Mental Health
• Challenging the dementia skills gap
• The current readiness of the workforce to deliver personalised care to people with dementia and their families
• Sensors installed in homes to monitor elderly people with dementia
• Outcomes so far

Councillor Felicity Hindson, Executive Member for Adult Social Care, Hampshire County Council (Confirmed)

Pension Reform - 2010 Onwards

• A landmark reform of the UK pensions system designed to deliver increased financial security for an ageing population
• The delivery of ground breaking workplace pension reform
• "Real Help for over 60s" - everything you need to know about what's available to you
• A review of the default retirement age
• The impacts on businesses, individuals and the economy of raising or removing the default retirement age

Simon Dawson, Head of Pensions Reform Delivery Programme, Pension, Disability and Carers Service, DWP (Confirmed)

The State of Health and Social Care Report

• The annual state of health and social care report – published February 10th, 2010
• Our response to the ‘Shaping the Future of Care Together’ Green paper
• Assessing quality across health and social care
• Moving towards a single registration system for providers of care in both sectors
• A review of meeting the healthcare needs of people in care homes
• The skills of care home staff and healthcare tasks
• Working with commissioners to make sure services improve
• Significant regulatory reform during the transitional year
• Periodic reviews to provide a picture of the NHS as a whole system

Dame Jo Williams CBE, Deputy Chair, Care Quality Commission (Confirmed)

Tackling Fuel Poverty

• Update on fuel poverty figures following 6th Annual Report in October 09
• Summary of the initial phase of the review to Summer 09
• Terms of reference for next phase of the Review with a particular focus on primary legislation for social price support

Daron Walker, Director Fuel Poverty Review, Department of Energy and Climate Change (Confirmed)

Afternoon Keynote Address: Shaping the Future of Care Together – Next Steps for Implementation

• 1.7 million more adults who need care and support by 2026
• A new National Care Service
• The right support to help you stay independent and well for as long as possible
• Better joined up working between health, housing and social care services
• The role of local authorities in providing innovative and high-quality care
• Supporting the people who work in care and support
• Skills for care - Creating a well trained social care work force
• Solutions to delivering system wide workforce change in dementia skills
• Home adaptations or technology to increase a persons independence
• Self diagnostic equipment in the home and savings to the NHS
• £130m to be invested in re-ablement and prevention
• A new vision for care and support 

Sally Warren, Deputy Director and Head of Social Care Strategy, Department of Health (Confirmed)

The Kent Independent Living Strategy

• Independent living and older people with high support needs
• Developing sheltered and extra care housing schemes
• ‘Better homes – Active Lives’ – for older people and those with mental health problems
• New technologies to help people live independently
• Telecare community alarm schemes and telehealth
• Developments in ‘Smart Homes’
• Kent sensory services - providing a range of services to deaf, sight impaired and deafblind people
• A pilot project for video interpreting services
• At home monitoring using diagnostic equipment linked via broadband internet connections to local hospitals and clinics
• Equipment and adaptive aids
• Future technologies and innovation to assist independent living

Oliver Mills, Managing Director, Kent Adult Social Services (Confirmed)

Staffordshire County Council: Staffordshire Cares - Shaping Staffordshire with and for the Community

• The demographic time bomb
• Over the next 25 years - a 76% increase in people over the age of 65
• The 'Changing Lives' and Staffordshire cares modernisation programme
• Engaging and involving local people and service users in the design of services
• Local listening events: giving people a choice
• Early intervention, prevention, flexibility and customer choice
• Building capacity in the voluntary and community sector
• Joint commissioning and place-shaping

Denise Vittorino , Head of Health Development, Staffordshire County Council (Confirmed)

A Partnership Approach to Long Term Care

• Spending on the NHS and social care must become more focused and more controlled as we face a growing older population
• A Conservative response to the Social Care Green paper
• A system where people can be sure their care needs are supported
• Alternative choices around funding
• Telecare can help save our health and social care system

Stephen O’Brien MP, Shadow Minister for Health (Confirmed)

Questions and answers and close of conference