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Calderdale Healthy Ageing Programme

POPPs or Partnership for Older People's Projects are funded by a Department of Health grant to test new ways of helping older people to live independently.  Calderdale Council, working in partnership with older people and a number of other statutory and voluntary groups, were successful with their bid - the Calderdale Healthy Ageing Programme.

The aims of Calderdale's POPPs Programme are:

• to promote new ways of working in partnership with older people
• to deliver services that older people have identified as being important
• to improve the health, well-being and social aspects of older people's lives
• to help older people maintain their independence and dignity
• to reduce emergency hospital admissions
• to increase the number of older people supported to live independently at home.

The Calderdale Healthy Ageing Programme will receive £943,000 over two years, commencing May 2007, to carry out a range of projects to meet the needs that older people in Calderdale have identified as important to them.

Partners include:   Anchor| ,  Voluntary Action Calderdale| , Calderdale Primary Care Trust| ,  South West Yorkshire Mental Health Trust|  and Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust| .

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