Healthy Age Friendly Homes Pilot Evaluation

Healthy Age Friendly Homes is a new support co-ordination service designed to enable older people to remain living in their own homes and to reduce the need to transfer to longterm residential care.

The service is delivered directly by Local Government with funding from the Department of Health, as it supports the Sláintecare objectives of facilitating early intervention, reducing demand on acute services, and delivering the vision of the right care, at the right place, at the right time, by the right team.

Funding for a pilot programme was approved by Sláintecare in December 2020 and following an accelerated development process, including a thorough and open recruitment process, Phase 1 of the Programme was fully operational by May 2021. During Phase 1, local coordinators were based in nine local authority sites around the country and worked within those catchment areas. The nine pilot sites included: Dublin City, Fingal, South Dublin, Longford, Westmeath, Tipperary, Galway City and County, Limerick City and County and Cork County.