{"id":3986,"date":"2015-07-09T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T13:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/?page_id=3986"},"modified":"2015-11-18T15:57:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T15:57:51","slug":"oct22","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/events\/oct22\/","title":{"rendered":"oct22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Older People and Health and Social Care \u2013 Getting the \u2018Right\u2019 Approach: How including the voices of older people and other human rights-based approaches improves outcomes in health and social care for older people<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Thursday 22 October 2015, Riddel Hall, Queen\u2019s University Belfast<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This joint Age NI\/ARK conference brought together leading experts on older people, human rights and health and social care in order to provide an evidence based analysis of key challenges affecting older people in the area of health and social care.\u00a0 The event was aimed at political representatives, policy makers, those involved in service delivery, academics and older people.\u00a0 Drawing on evidence and expert analysis, including the direct experience of older people, the presentations and discussions explored solutions and recommendations aimed at influencing policy making and service delivery in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ageuk.org.uk\/northern-ireland\/latest-news\/archive\/upholding-the-dignity-and-rights-of-individuals-will-drive-a-better-health-and-social-care-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">Press release<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ageuk.org.uk\/Documents\/EN-GB-NI\/policy\/social-care\/Age_NI_ARK_Ageing_Conference_Participants_Brief_2015.pdf?epslanguage=en-GB-NI?dtrk=true\" target=\"_blank\">Participants&#8217; Brief<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ageuk.org.uk\/Documents\/EN-GB-NI\/policy\/social-care\/Age_NI_ARK_Conference_October_2015.pdf?epslanguage=en-GB-NI?dtrk=true\" target=\"_blank\">Conference Programme<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Speakers included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linda Robinson (AgeNI)\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WSUgwxNDzWA&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Video<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Maeve McLaughlin MLA, Chair of Committee for Health, Social Services and Public Safety\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yWceXjykdbM&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Video<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Marj Aiken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=670r5f0UaAQ\" target=\"_blank\">Video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/people\/vfellow\/john-williams\/\">John Williams<\/a> (University of Aberystwyth)\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FbXHHrKQ01o&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Video<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lindsey Dyer (Mersey Care Trust)\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OWWDxcLpz4o&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Video<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Robert Peat (Scottish Care Inspectorate)\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6Arg6IlrPVU&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Video<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Margaret McKenna (AgeNI) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PFH1D-e2nFE&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The afternoon session included a panel discussion involving:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maeve McLaughlin MLA, Chair of Committee for Health, Social Services and Public Safety<\/li>\n<li>Mary Black, Assistant Director of Health and Social Wellbeing Improvement, Public Health Agency<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Keenan, Assistant Director, Assistant Director Older People and Adults, Health and Social Care Board<\/li>\n<li>Evelyn Hoy, Chief Executive, Commissioner for Older People<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Alan Lennon, Chair, Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority<\/li>\n<li>Virginia McVea, Director, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission<\/li>\n<li>Edel Quinn, Strategic Policy Advisor, Age NI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The event was covered on NVTV, and the programme is available <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/143631907\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Information on the event can also be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ageuk.org.uk\/northern-ireland\/for-professionals\/health-social-care\/ageni-ark-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\">AgeNI<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3986\" data-postid=\"3986\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3986 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older People and Health and Social Care \u2013 Getting the \u2018Right\u2019 Approach: How including the voices of older people and other human rights-based approaches improves outcomes in health and social care for older people Thursday 22 October 2015, Riddel Hall, Queen\u2019s University Belfast This joint Age NI\/ARK conference brought together leading experts on older people, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":173,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3986","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-post-title","no-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4294,"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3986\/revisions\/4294"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}