Ageing well Kent, Surrey and Sussex has a disproportionately older population than the national average. At Health Innovation KSS we work closely with our integrated care systems and research partners, including the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Kent, Surrey and Sussex (ARC KSS), to support our population and health and care system challenges. The problem Our population is ageing faster than the national average. This creates additional challenges for our health and care system, with increasing multi-morbidities associated with age, including frailty and dementia, increased health and care demand, and we have additional challenges delivering care in rural and coastal communities (CMO report 2023). Delivering effective care for an ageing population requires an integrated approach. Demand on services is currently outstripping capacity to deliver care in primary, community and social care, as well as in acute and mental health services. We need to significantly rethink how we approach these challenges, systematically. Our work Our developing ageing well programme focuses on integration of services and optimising research and innovation, including digital transformation, with the aim to improve access, outcomes, and experience for our population, workforce, and health and care system. Alongside our partners, ARC KSS, we have produced My choice, an evidence-based information resource for people living with Dementia, and supported the evaluation of the new dementia care coordinators (DCC) service in Kent and Medway. News and case studies World Alzheimer’s Month: Time to Act on dementia September marks World Alzheimer’s Month. We’re shining a light on this year’s campaign and our ongoing efforts to support dementia... News 26 Sep 2024 More Dementia Action Week: Challenges and opportunities in our region Kath Sykes implementation lead summaries the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for Dementia health and care in our region. Blog 15 May 2024 More New information resource launched to help people live well with dementia My Choice, a new information resource for people living with dementia has been launched offering people the information they need to help them live well following a diagnosis of dementia. Case StudyNews 18 Apr 2024 More How can we help reduce health inequalities through digital inclusion? Kath Sykes explores what the health and care system can do to help digitally include all parts of our population, to enable everyone that could benefit from digital health and care to do so, and reduce the risk of health inequalities as a result. BlogNews 8 Feb 2024 More Case Study: Leo Cancer Care Aiming to be a roaring success in the field of cancer treatment KSS AHSN is supporting an innovative Surrey-based... Case StudyNews 26 Jul 2023 More Case study: Virtual Memory Assessment – One Year On A year after the launch of the virtual memory assessment toolkit for health and care, how has it influenced practice after COVID-19? Case StudyNews 24 Apr 2023 More Case study: Growing Health Together Challenge Co-designing integrated and sustainable primary care, to both meet the needs of the community, and the demands and changes... Case Study 16 Mar 2023 More Homecare Community of Experience See the slides from the Homecare Community of Experience event in October 2022, looking at digital innovation in care at home provision. News 8 Dec 2022 More RESTORE2 – the importance of managing physical deterioration RESTORE2 is a robust tool for managing deterioration in care home residents - learn why this is so important. News 8 Aug 2022 More RESTORE2 – new training dates added Kent Surrey Sussex Patient Safety Collaborative (KSS PSC) has had such a great response to its RESTORE2 training that it’s added in some extra dates through to the end of June Uncategorised 13 Jun 2022 More Huntington’s disease: service model co-production A project involving KSS AHSN has developed a new service model that aims to improve care and support for people with Huntington’s disease... Case StudyNews 6 Apr 2022 More NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Kent Surrey Sussex (ARC KSS) ARC KSS was formed in July 2019 as part of a £135m investment by the National Institute of Health Research... Case Study 30 Jun 2020 More ← → Contact us If you’d like to find out more about our work in ageing and dementia or are interested in collaborating with us, get in touch. Meet the team Get in touch