Older People's Strategy - Newcastle City Council

68Actions Ensure that there is a continued move from long-terminstitutional care to the delivery of health and social careand support in local settings which offer greater choiceand more control for older people. Ensure that rehabilitation and intermediate care services arein place which avoid unnecessary admissions to hospitaland facilitate timely discharge back to a person’s own home. Ensure that older people are involved in planning all aspectsof their care. Ensure that frail older people with more than one long-termcondition have a personalised care plan overseen by anamed individual, regardless of where their care is beingdelivered. Ensure that people with long-term conditions (e.g. diabetes,stroke, high blood pressure or cardiovascular disease)receive information, advice and support which helps themand their carers to self-manage their conditions and careand support needs. Manage the social care market effectively so that there aresufficient services for people who need them which areresponsive, flexible and of good quality. Invest in new technologies, e.g. telecare and telemedicine,which help to support older people to live at home andpromote their independence and well-being.