AGEING POPULATION Burden or Benefit

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AGEING POPULATION- Burden or Benefit?
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• 20-22 January 2002
• Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh

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Lessons from Hospices

• Hugh Scurfield
• 2-Jan-02

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Hospice Care

• Helping the dying and their carers
• pain and symptom control
• practical, emotional and spiritual support
• day care in hospice
• home visits by nurses
• inpatient beds for respite and terminal care
• bereavement support

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Hospices

• Inpatients beds are provided by
• NHS 19
• National charities 12
• Independent Hospices 69
• UK has 183 Independent Hospices

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Independent Hospices

• Income is provided by
• NHS 85m 20
• Voluntary giving 235m 56
• Volunteers value 100m 24
• 80 of the income comes from volunteers
• 80 of the outlay is the cost of employing the
  15,000 staff

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Independent Hospices Volunteers

• There are 90,000 of them, working usually ½ a
  day per week, equivalent to 9,000 full time
  staff. They could cost some 100m.
• 87 are over 50 - 13 are over 70
• Volunteers are mainly third agers

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Third Agers

• The three ages
• 1st age - education and
• 2nd age - main career and launching the family
• 3rd age - the age of living
• Third Agers are increasing in number
• We are younger and fitter
• Many want to go on giving

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The 90,000 Volunteers help

• With care of patients and carers
• by driving
• as receptionists
• as therapists
• with gardening
• with book keeping
• as Trustees

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Volunteers help with Fundraising

• Hospice Shops
• Hospice Lottery
• Support Groups
• Special Events
• Spreading the Word

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Regular Cash Income

• NHS 29 (reducing)
• Legacies 23
• Other public giving 31 (incl sponsorship)
• Trading 20
• Other 7
• PATIENTS PAY NOTHING

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Independent Hospice Income

• A total of 320pa
• Collectively far larger than that of any other
  fundraising charity
• Costs only 7 of income to collect - others often
  quote figures of 30 and above.

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Volunteers help because

• They want to
• They know the service is very good
• The hospice is locally owned and helps local
  people
• They can see and feel the help they give
• There is no bureaucracy
• they themselves gain satisfaction and dignity
  

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Third Age Volunteers bring

• Real and ordinary life into the hospice
• wisdom and maturity
• experience of life
• a refreshing balance amongst the professional
  care
• benefit not burden

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Lessons

• The third agers can and do bring benefits to the
  sick and old
• They themselves gain benefit
• The organisation has to adapt to use them
• More government encouragement would help - but
  words are not enough
• There is a lot more help that could be given by
  this growing number of third agers.