Care in the Community

For a number of years now there has been a desire to help enhance or build on how local people’s wellbeing can be improved and maintained for longer. This also fits well with the Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership’s ambition.

We tried under Community Action Plan 2018 and failed. However, Community Action Plan 2023, prepared by organisations in the community, includes a Care element, and a local group is now working on how we can interact with the community to determine the support for Care to secure wellbeing for longer.

The group would be happy to try to organise and implement such Care, but we would have to know that we had community support.

It’s obviously about more than just pure health. Can we tackle things like loneliness, lack of engagement, inability to travel or move around the village, and help people feel well at home? What else really matters to a person’s wellbeing? Is there anything that you think would prevent us tackling these things?

Our initial thinking includes a need to:

·      Better understand how people are doing.

·      Understand everything that contributes to a particular person’s wellbeing.

·      Better coordinate assistance that would help address current or possible wellbeing issues.

·      Provide care and broader support, drawing on this knowledge and coordinated thinking.

·      Have feedback from you on your understanding of how that care and support has worked – what impact has it had? What could be better?

·      Build on such feedback.

If you are on email, Ballater (RD) Ltd is happy for you to send to: info@royal-deeside.org.uk even with just a simple 'Happy to help the Care Group', or drop a similar note into the Community Hub, addressed to the Ballater Eagle who are also carrying this notification.

In time we would welcome any other thoughts about Care via the same routes, but at this stage we need your approval that we are putting in the right building blocks to deliver a Care package. Please help things to change, or be enhanced, to assist the wellbeing of our local folk for longer.