Strategy for a Scotland with an ageing population The local authority overview Roger White Aberdeens

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Strategy for a Scotland with an ageing
populationThe local authority overviewRoger
WhiteAberdeenshire Council
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Well look at

• The demographic shift in Aberdeenshire
• Characteristics of older people
• Direct impact on services of more older people
• An example social work
• The indirect impact on services of the
  demographic shift
• A concluding thought

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Aberdeenshire population 2006-2021
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The changing characteristics of older people

• Not only more people and a higher proportion of
  the population but also
• More active marketing professionals say 50-70
  go-gos, 70-80 slow-gos, 80 no-gos
• Higher expectations and greater demand for
  personalisation of services
• More likely to vote than younger people!

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Direct impact on services of more older people

• Social work
• Housing
• Recreation
• Learning
• Transportation and mobility
• Partners health RSLs police

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An example social work

• Budgets rising pressure on a needs led
  service
• Modernisation
• Prioritising including less preventative work
  (problems later)
• Partnership esp. NHS pooled resources/joint
  services
• Workforce fishing in a decreasing pool

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The indirect impact on services of the
demographic shift

• Older people as an economic driver grey
  panthers
• Re-allocating resources between services,
  especially from education
• Have you ever tried to close a small rural
  primary school?
• Home care is incremental, education is lumpy
• Pressure on the losing services
• The political will to change

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The GAE distribution trap
GAE grant aided expenditure
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Our own workforce

• Increasingly competitive labour market
• Getting and keeping people a challenge in an area
  with 1.1 unemployment
• 14,800 employees, 320 (2.2) aged 65
• Not so long ago an employee over retirement age
  was a problem Whys he still here?
• Now recruitment strategy widening the pool
  to consider early retirers, over 65s

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This is Seymour
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This is also Seymour

• 74 going on 75
• Part of the 50 at the store who work part time
• Part of the 30 over retirement age
• Works 2 days a week, about to go to 5
• Recruited through a newspaper flyer
• Takes college classes
• Migrant worker - American
• Where are our Seymours?

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Thank you
Roger White Head of policy Aberdeenshire
Council roger.white_at_aberdeenshire.gov.uk 01226
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