Older people's shared priority

'Improving the quality of life for older people' was one of seven shared priorities agreed between central government and the Local Government Association (LGA).

Fifty local authorities and their partners participated in the shared priority work, through action learning sets (ALSs). The work ran from September 2004 to April 2006.

These guides identify the lessons learnt. In them you will find valuable and timely examples, tools and insights. These will help to implement the vision for modernising older people's services.

This work was launched on 19 January 2007 at the LGA conference 'Facing the Future: Shaping services for older people'.

• Policy document (PDF, 52 pages, 514KB)
• Overview (PDF, 20 pages, 136KB)
• Summary of key messages (PDF, 12 pages, 49KB)
• Why bother: improving the quality of life for older people (PDF, 20 pages, 484KB)
• Engaging with older people (PDF, 36 pages, 406KB)
• Working as a whole system (PDF, 40 pages, 419KB)
• Developing quality of life strategies (PDF, 68 pages, 553KB)
• Case studies (PDF, 24 pages, 124KB)

The following organisations, listed alphabetically, were in the steering group for this project:

• Association of Directors of Social Services
• Audit Commission
• Better Government for Older People
• Communities and Local Government
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Department of Health
• LGA.