AT HOME An Audit Tool for Housing and Housing related support for Older people from Minority Ethnic communities

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AT HOMEAn Audit Tool for Housing and Housing
related support for Older people from Minority
Ethnic communities

• Kalyani Gandhi Chair, HOPDEV BME Working Group
• Philip Brown University of Salford

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What is AT HOME?

• Promote real changes in translating policy into
  practice
• First tool of its kind keeping needs and
  aspirations of BME older people central to
  planning services
• Means to assess, identify and provide lasting
  solutions.

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Why AT HOME ?

• HOPDEV and BME working group
• National and local policy framework
• Inequality in housing and support to BME older
  people
• Barriers and challenges to BME service development

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Benefits of using AT HOME

• Improvements in identifying local needs and
  aspirations
• Improve/direct strategies and policies in service
  development and implementation
• Vehicle for good practice/innovation

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Benefits of AT HOME

• Means to deliver appropriate services
• Encourage partnerships local and national
• Enhance inspection mechanisms
• Enhance monitoring and evaluation

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Making a difference

• AT HOME will help people in charge of housing
  and us to work together so that we can have
  better housing
• AT HOME will help us get the help we need to
  live the lives we want
• - BME older people participating in the
  pilot of AT HOME

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Leading principles

• Raising awareness
• Developing good practice
• Monitoring practice
• Continuous improvement
• Wide audience

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Development of the audit tool

• Existing tool review
• Consultation around content and format
• Continuous refinement
• Product testing

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Development of the audit tool

• Consultations indicated a need for
• Flexibility
• Complementary practice
• Engagement with the communities
• An aid to assist in a coherent process of change

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AT HOME

• A modular audit/self assessment tool covering
• BME older peoples experiences and perspectives
• Improving understanding of communities
• Commissioning issues
• Information provision and access to services
• Monitoring issues
• Linkages between services and agencies

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AT HOME

• Action planning design
• Allows for consideration of action needed
• Dissemination of models of good practice
• Assists with HC, AC SP commitments
• Encourages older people, providers and
  commissioners to communicate
• Flexible format that can be developed

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Format of AT HOME

• CD-Rom containing
• Two options of completing AT HOME
• To print the full tool
• To complete interactively
• Leaflet for older people about the tool

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Looking forward

• Starting point not an end point
• Encourage joint working (social care, housing and
  health)
• Helps embrace and respond to multiple
  inequalities