Older People Content Development

For this demographic there may be some acute events that drive them to needing to 1. need to seek and receive care and 2. decompensate.  cataloguing and understanding the nature of these acute shocks can help to understand the environmental, social and commercial determinants of health that may be leading these individuals to decompensate and need care.  for example, looking at environmental determinants - severe heat, drought, floods, extreme cold, snow.  social determinants - impacted transport infrastructure (the strikes we experienced and are experiencing), changing bus lines, road works (these can impact people's ability to get around); housing (fire, building works); financial (increasing interest rates, inflation/cost of living crisis); nutrition (could be living in a food desert or a nearby supermarket could have shut down).  

An important area that is not really covered here is the very important role that informal care plays for this demographic: https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/unpaid-carers-informal-yet-integral

Finally, linked to ADL and IADL, a broad and important category of intervention is reablement

one other thought is sufficient staffing - this is certainly in the UK where there is a big staffing crisis in social care that leads to delayed care