Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with Co-operation and Working Together

Mr. Bill Forbes:

The community health synchronisation, CoH-Sync, project is currently a very successful one, with more than 10,000 direct beneficiaries. The project covers a number of key areas for the elderly: loneliness, management of healthcare, healthier lifestyles, diabetes, alcohol and drug management. Through our integrated care programme, frailty is one of the issues we will address in the current PEACE PLUS programme. Frailty covers a number of areas: everything from falling, telemedicine, loneliness, and the impact of isolation due to Covid-19. We all know the data on that. Isolation is not good for anyone's health, and it has a detrimental impact on it. Frailty and looking after the older population, who we see as very vulnerable but very valuable, is one of the key aspects under the six themes of the integrated care programme for PEACE PLUS. The CoH-Sync project is currently undergoing independent evaluation. As Mr. McCallion stated, more than 85% of our programmes have been mainstreamed. The next mainstreaming meeting will be in June 2022. We will see which programmes to choose, and we will try to influence policymakers to mainstream them, along with the other ones that we have. Our objective is to mainstream all our projects.

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