Box 1.

Summary of the National Service Framework Approach: Older People's Care

Objective:	To provide high quality pre-admission and rehabilitation care to older people. To help older people live as independently as possible by reducing preventable hospitalisation and ensuring year-on-year reductions in delays in moving over 75s on from hospital.
Targets:	By April 2002:
	• a single assessment process between health and social care including a proactive process of identifying and inviting more vulnerable people for assessment
	• to lower the average rate of delayed transfer of care for people over 75 to 10% of the 2000/01 level;
	• to ensure that the average per capita rate of emergency admissions for people aged 75 or over is less than 2% and that the rate of readmissions within 28 days of discharge does not increase
	• create 1500 more intermediate care beds and undertake 60,000 more treatments
	• increase the number of people who live at home by 2%
Mechanisms:	• Promote flu vaccinations
	• Develop joint assessment procedures between health and social care
	• Develop joint working between health and social care
	• Needs assessment for nursing and residential beds