The Southern District Health Board has established an advisory committee to guide planning for changes to how the elderly receive care.
Draft terms of reference for the health of older persons planning advisory committee are included in a report to today's disability support and community and public health advisory committee.
The committee would report directly to finance and funding general manager Robert Mackway-Jones, who is also the committee chairman. Meetings would be held four times a year and would be closed to the public.
The committee would help oversee a plan which aims to keep older people at home as long as possible, establishing clinical care networks in the community.
Members of the wide-ranging committee included representatives from nursing, pharmacy, allied health, consumers, Age Concern, aged care providers, Southern Primary Health Organisation, and Maori health.
The committee's inaugural meeting was held last week in Balclutha.
