Recently the Rural Centre of Excellence in partnership with Health and Social Care, hosted our Living Lab 3 Care in Place workshops, bringing together local health and social care staff, third sector services and unpaid carers.
The workshops centred around the development of Community Connection and the Personal Data Store, digital tools developed through codesign to support older people, and unpaid carers find services more easily Staff and citizens in Moray have been testing the tools over the past year. The work is research in the real world, highlighting the people's day to day challenges.
People who attended the workshop welcomed the new development stating, “If this had been available a few years ago it would have made an incredible difference to my daughter and I, people are finally being seen.”
“It’s absolutely amazing that our stories are being heard, we will no longer need to repeat ourselves.”
It was encouraging to see strong engagement from unpaid carers and health and social care staff, and the levels of enthusiasm surrounding the digital tools, as it will support citizens to find the right services at the right time.
