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Older People Living

in Clanmil homes

Clanmil offers a range of accommodation options to during the day, provided by our dedicated Scheme Co- Dementia
older people: ordinator team. We receive Supporting People funding from
the Housing Executive to help meet the cost of these services. Dementia specific services are an important part of the work we do. We value
Category 1 housing for active older people 658 our partnership with Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, delivering key services

Category 2 Independent Living 966 Housing with Care together to provide bespoke supported accommodation. People also live with
dementia at our Independent Living schemes and Housing with Care homes,
Housing with Care 42 We have three small Housing with Care homes, two in Belfast and we plan to evolve our activities and actions to support as many older people
and one in Magherafelt. In total, they offer accommodation as possible.
Supported Dementia 85
for 42 residents with a high quality, round the clock care and In addition, we plan to refresh and expand our work with Engage with Age and
General Needs (currently occupied by 1,018 support in a homely, community focussed setting. These other stakeholders working to create an ‘Age Friendly Society’. We plan to adopt
older people) are regulated and inspected by the Regulation Quality and these principles and actions to influence our work across all of our schemes, where
Improvement Authority (RQIA). This is a high cost, but high older people live:
Independent Living (Category 1 and 2) impact service. We know it’s valued by residents, their families, • Partnership working
Health and Social Care Trusts and those local communities.
Our Independent Living schemes offer just over 1,700 older Keeping the homes financially viable is vital and we strive to • Physical environment and access to outdoor space
people their own self-contained apartment or bungalow. The keep them vibrant, comfortable and welcoming places to live. • Social inclusion
service model focusses on security, choice and independence,
meaning that customers can be involved in as much or General Needs • Health and wellbeing
as little of our services as they want to be. There are two • Financial security
categories of Independent Living accommodation. Category We have 1018 older customers currently living in our general
1 is usually a cluster of homes with people of the same age needs homes, in communities throughout Northern Ireland. Clanmil is already a Dementia friendly organisation – we plan to refresh and renew
and visiting staff. Category 2 services are primarily apartment Through this strategy, we hope to extend the reach of our this charter mark.
schemes which offer an on-site low level support service older people services to more include this group of customers.

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