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This Tripartite Agreement is a collaboration between Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Greater Manchester Housing Providers and Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership

The Hubble Project – developed by the National Care Forum (NCF) with funding from NHS Digital’s Digital Pathfinders Programme - enables care providers to learn from others who have introduced technology.

This briefing by the charity, Independent Age, follows a Freedom of Information request to local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups in Autumn 2020, asking them about their approaches to commissioning services and their knowledge of the current demand and availability of services in their area.

Not enough local authorities or care providers are using available technology within social care to keep people safe, happy and healthy at home, according to the final report of an ADASS/TSA Commission exploring the issue launched today at the 2021 ITEC conference.

This report presents the latest evidence on a topic that has greater relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic. It points out that ageism leads to poorer health, social isolation, earlier deaths and cost economies billions. The report calls for swift action to implement effective anti-ageism strategies.

This report by Octavia Housing and New Philanthropy Capital explores the existing evidence around loneliness and isolation amongst older people.

The government has published a White Paper, ‘Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all’ white paper’, that sets out proposals to join up health and care services and embed lessons learned from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic for a Health and Care Bill. Could part of a new integrated care system in England look like the arrangements in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland?

A report by Foundations states that dementia needs should be positioned more central to the current framework of housing and health rather than in the margin and calls for action.

A study of 250 Central & Cecil (C&C) residents out today finds 12% experience feelings of loneliness/isolation on a daily/weekly basis – higher than other recent studies. The C&C report found that speaking with family and friends, taking up a new hobby/activity and regular walks seen as best coping mechanisms to manage feelings.