NBCT have been working with the ICAN programme for 2 years to deliver a pilot Ageing Well programme focussed on supporting Asian communities with a view to learning from this. The proposal is to extend this work to support African and African-Caribbean Communities and people living with dementia. We have delivered important outcomes that demonstrate the need to develop specific Black community led programmes that can reach people in Black communities to enable equal access and to ensure that services are linguistically, socially and culturally appropriate.

The Ageing Well Team is funded by the Integrated Care Board (ICB) and is made up of 3 PTEstaff andsupports Asian older people and we have had a very successful year supporting over 88 people forone-to-one support and provided wellbeing support and services for over 150 people. The one-to-one support
is person centred and holistic and has supported people to access the right services, navigate services and also ensure that people’s language and cultural needs are taken into account.

Key challenges this project aims to address are:

• Health inequalities
• Barriers to accessing services and support
• Evidencing needs in black communities
• Offering models of culturally appropriate services
• Advocating for change and transformation
• Influencing system change

The Ageing Well Impact Report demonstrates case studies of people supported and the outcomes achieved for people. For example we supported a 65 year olde woman with dementia and met many challenges in ensuring she received the right health and social care and that her main carers were supported to ensure they knew what support they should be accessing. We were able to source the right residential placement at the end of life and the family were able to ensure they were with her during these difficult days. The feedback from the family was: ‘we could not have supported my wife without the incredible support from your staff and volunteers. We are forever in your debt’.