• Choice Shop Opening
  
• Ministers visit
  
• Owl launch
  
• Really Important Questions (RIQ) report
  

Choice Shop Opening

The Choice shop has been collating information for older people for some time now and had it's opening day on the 23rd of March.

Coronation Street's Shobna Gulati who plays (Sunita) opened and cut the ribbon to the Choice Shop.

ChoicE (Care and Home Options Independent ChoicE) provides an information service about all aspects of care homes in Tameside and those homes with nursing in Tameside and Glossop. It also provides details of current vacancies in care homes.


Funded by Social Care and Health and being managed by the CAB to maintain and provide independent information on the following home support services including cleaning, shopping, escort services, laundry services, frozen meals and the community response service, plus Day Care Centres, community groups and social activities for older people in Tameside.

The information is free and kept up to date.

Visit the Choice Shop on Stamford Street - Ashton-u-Lyne, or give them a ring on 0161 339 5355.

Minister's Visit

"From Tameside we’ve seen joint working in practice. I’ve met members of the Tameside team and I’m encouraged by their skills and work they’re doing for the benefit of older people. " He went on to state:

"I think what we’ve got is to make sure we learn from good practice although Tameside is in the lead on this, we want more local authorities to develop this kind of approach in the months to come. I think we’ve got to find ways of making sure people can learn from what you’re doing here in Tameside so that people are not reinventing the wheel all the time.”

OWL Launch

Mr Wicks also launched the OWL website, which is dedicated to providing quality information for older people.

Mr Wicks said "I think the website is an excellent way of bringing service provision and benefits to older people in Tameside. I go away back to London, Whitehall and the House of Commons, very, very encouraged by what I have seen here in Tameside."

"I think the website is another example of that joined up approach, because many older people are interested in IT, or they are learning it for the first time. If they can’t operate it themselves then they've probably got a grandchild or a neighbour that can."

Mr Wicks also met staff from the teams and Cllr Margaret Oldham and Janet Callender, Chief Executive. He also heard first hand about the work from community leader Dipak Chauhan who represents Tameside and the North West on the UK Older People's Advisory Group and Elsie Dixon, an active community volunteer in Hattersley.

Video with Malcolm Wicks and the launch of the OWL website, Minister of State for Pensions

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Really Important Quesitons (RIQ) 5th Conference Report

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The 5th “Really Important Questions” Annual Conference was held at the Alder Community High School, Hyde on Wednesday 27th October 2004.

The main aim of the day was for Senior Managers from health and social care services in Tameside and the older people in the community to examine what had been achieved as a result of the focus on older people’s issues at previous conferences. The conference’s other objectives were to look at how services have changed locally and address how health and social care services have been responding to the messages from older people about the type of services that are important to them and the way they are delivered.

Councillor John Taylor, Tameside MBC Cabinet Deputy for Social Care and Health, opened the conference and encouraged delegates to take the opportunity to voice their views and thereby contribute to the planning of services.

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