Making decisions together
Project conclusion February 2025
The 'Planning Older People's Service' Provisioning Strategic Project has now reached its conclusion, with the Integration Joint Board (IJB) approving and agreeing the recommendations of the final project report.
View the final Planning Older People Servies Project report here.
Background to this project
Our population is changing. People are living longer, and our previous research has informed us that many older people want to stay in their own homes for as long as possible.
East Lothian Health and Social Partnership (ELHSCP) is responsible for delivering effective older people’s services. We want to make sure that we have the services and resources in plcae to support people to live in their own homes for as long as possible.
However we can’t do this alone. We need to draw on the support of all our citizens and communities, to develop high-quality and sustainable services for the future.
Our aim is to work with East Lothian residents and communities to collectively identify possible options to support the development of high quality sustainable services for older people in the future.

Background information
The documents below provide background information, and outline what we are looking to achieve during this engagement period. We encourage you to read these papers to help understand the issues we are consulting on.
These documents help show a comprehensive picture of the challenges, opportunities, and solutions being proposed.
Background information
Challenges facing health and social care
Technical documentation

How are decisions made?
In this section we will explain how we will collate all of the ideas and suggestions from engagement activities together. How these suggestions are then reviewed, analysed and assessed - including an explaination of the assessment criteria. How the short list of options will be formed. And finally how you are able to feedback back on the solutions being proposals.

Engagement opportunities
This project has now reached its conclusion.
You can review the engagement stages of this project and its outcomes within the following pages of the website: