[...] The economic environment and the lack of funding are considered as major barriers to develop and implement successful AHA policies. But allocating more money would solve all problems in policy-making and implementation. Funding might already be allocated and available but perhaps the communication about these opportunities is poor or the awareness about them is low. It could also be possible that the policy priorities and the funding priorities do not correspond and without funds allocated to the policy priorities, their implementation will suffer and will fail to deliver impact. Government often works in silo mentality and therefore, the funding made available is also in silos, without coherence or synergy between the funding lines. Stakeholders might not have the capacities and the skills to retrieve the available funding. In this case rather skills development than the increase in funding could be a remedy to the issue.
But allocating more money would NOT solve all problems in policy-making and implementation
Damir Ivanković, 14/10/2016 01:22
Capacity building has been a buzzword for a long time, but we seem not to explain what it actually contains, in detail and in specific examples. A simple fact is that more severe health conditions are managed in home care environments as before, and this will increase. Moderate to severe dementia are quite common already in so called self-managed independent living. The competence picture for social work professionals needs adopt more nursing, and things like cleaning and shopping can no longer be formally part of social care. "Funding for capacity building" is thus quite tricky.
Patrik Eklund, 25/10/2016 11:02
Not having read the comments, I think this section needs to be heavily edited to provide a clearer understanding. One element that is missing in the knowledge of AHA. Because healthy living does not begin at 60 - it begins the day you are born. In addition, in regards to barriers to policies then one barrier is the understanding of the field and the (sometimes) non-inclusion of the users and their requirements.
Christina E.Wanscher, 28/10/2016 08:27
Not having read the comments, I think this section needs to be heavily edited to provide a clearer understanding. One element that is missing in the knowledge of AHA. Because healthy living does not begin at 60 - it begins the day you are born. In addition, in regards to barriers to policies then one barrier is the understanding of the field and the (sometimes) non-inclusion of the users and their requirements.
Christina E.Wanscher, 28/10/2016 08:28
Thanks, Damir!
ERRIN Network, 03/11/2016 16:05
This sentence was more about the skills to apply for funds, not necessarily about the skills for the care staff but I will try and look for a place to insert this comment, Patrik. Thanks
ERRIN Network, 03/11/2016 16:06
Dear Christina, I understand that it is not easy to grasp the whole picture by these small paragraphs that we put forward for comments. If you provide me with your email address, I can forward you the whole report. Yet, your comment about the engagement of the users I will try and integrate in another chapter
ERRIN Network, 03/11/2016 16:08
