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Research from the University of Kent has revealed that a new Department of Health-funded scheme for older people could almost halve overnight stays in hospital and cut accident and emergency attendances by nearly a third.
The scheme, known as the Partnership for Older People Projects (POPP), was launched in 2005 and set up 29 local authority-led pilots, working with their health and voluntary sector partners, across England. The purpose of the pilots was to deliver and evaluate locally innovative approaches to help keep older people healthy, well and independent, and prevent or delay high-intensity or institutional care. The projects developed ranged from low-level services, such as lunch-clubs, to more formal preventive initiatives, such as hospital discharge and rapid-response services. Over a quarter of a million people (264,637) used one or more of these services during the pilot phase.
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