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A guide to co-production with older people: personalisation: don't just do it: co-produce it and live it!
- Authors:
- ARCHIBALD Andrew, et al
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- Christchurch
This short guide summarises the key messages from a co-production team who, over a four month period, worked together to identify what co-production with older people means, what it involves, and what it looks and feels like when it happens at a local level. Co-production can be defined as individuals, communities and organisations having the skills, knowledge and ability to work together, create opportunities and solve problems. This report describes how putting this into practice is not so simple, and for older people who need support in their lives is a relatively new phenomenon. These skills and abilities may not always immediately obvious, and it can take time to build confidence, trust and mutual understanding. Decisions about public services and opportunities have historically been made by public bodies and agencies without the involvement of local communities and users of those services. To help authorities to understand the power of co-production, this guide contains stories that describe how individuals and communities have worked in partnership with public services to co-produce services and change lives. The stories illustrate how co-production releases the knowledge and skills of individuals for the benefit of the community; how it can reconnect individuals to their communities; and connect local authorities to the people that they serve. This report is intended for a number of audiences.