Wraparound care for older communities

Registered dietitian at Wiltshire Farm Foods, Helen Willis, looks at how the named doctor concept could impact on older people’s health: Jeremy Hunt’s suggestion that the most vulnerable people in society should be assigned a named doctor is, I believe, an important step in recognising the gaps in wraparound care for older communities. As the pressure on health and social care budgets reaches a critical point, many older people are left struggling to live independently at home and this is compacted by the fact that nuclear families increasingly live apart and are not always able to provide the same level