Mervyn Taylor Third Age Seminar EU Commission – Dublin 2 nd March 2012

1. Perspectives of a Pathfinder Mervyn Taylor Third Age Seminar EU Commission – Dublin 2nd March 2012

2. “Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward”. SorenKierkegaard PROVIDERSOF Citizen Community Corporate PROVIDED FOR

5. Young Turk to Old Fart

6. Identity Politics

7. Spaces & PlacesCitizen Space Market Place Home Place

8. The Citizen Space

9. Womb to Tomb

12. The OECD ...is grágeal my chroí Potential for the public service ‘to become more focused on its contribution to the achievement of broader citizen-centred societal outcomes.’ OECD Public Management Reviews: Ireland – Towards an Integrated Public Service

13. Understanding the Life CycleInter-Connectedness & Complexity NESC Human Services Sectors Eldercare End-of-life care Disability Policing ELDER COUNCILS Social Connections Services Transport & Mobility Safety, Security, Crime Income & Financial Resources FORUM on END of LIFE Social Health Economic Legislative Administrative Educational Cultural Religious HHH Home Hospice Hospital Hotel Hospitality HOSPICE Holistic Physical Psychological Spiritual Social HFH STANDARDS Patient Staff Family Hospital

14. Unravelling the Life Cycle The challenge: ‘how to wrap supports around the individual based on where they are in the lifecycle’ NESC

15. Changing Public Services ‘The Search for Actions with Leverage’ Public Services Services with & for Public ‘Airports’ / Clustering Public Service Innovation Network Innovation (R&D) Funds Challenge (Internal) Pathfinders & Guides Oversight by ‘Elders’ (PIRs) Personalisation Self-Management Logic Models: Inputs-Outputs-Outcomes Evidence informed / Values Base Experience based Committed to Improvising adapting and overcoming in the face of adversity • Pilots • Public Service Excellence Awards • Philanthropic Funds • Caution • Help-Desk • Senior Civil Service • Regulation • One size fits all • Service Model • Evidence Base • Anecdote • Committed to maintaining status quo

16. Croke Park – Whose Agreement? ‘The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic’. Peter Drucker

17. The Market Place

18. “You can’t buck the markets’ …but you can develop new ones

19. “All are free to sleep under bridges…it’s just that the rich choose not to” Anatole France

20. Self-Management “..rather than giving fixed budgets to traditional public service providers like the HSE, VECs and Fás, we will put resources into the hands of citizens to acquire services that are tailored to better suit their needs and less expensive for the taxpayer” Programme for Govt

22. Monetising Culture …..& Care

23. “We need more people …..who are less diffident in the presence of technology. There are not enough articulate Luddite, anti-technology voices.” Dr David Gelernter. Pioneering Computer Scientist. Economist 3rd Feb 2011 http://www.economist.com/node/21540383

24. QuaNGOs…..Culling me softly?

25. The Home Space

26. A Life Apart

27. ‘the fate which for some older people precedes death – confined to a bed in an open ward in an old building eating dinner on one side of a curtain while on the other side a person uses a commode’. Dr Maurice Manning President Irish Human Rights Commission

29. “What I would like to see is community based trusts developing new innovation models embedded in local communities and finding ways to do this that at least won’t be more expensive than current private care costs- otherwise the idea will be shelved as being too expensive”Anonymous

30. Building for Generations to Come

31. Arscáth a chéile a mhairimíd We live in each other’s shadow