This version of the Ageing Well Toolkit has been put together to ensure you, as Service Providers, are aware of the issues facing someone with a disability as they age. This will help to ensure that the support you are providing to someone with a disability is relevant and reactive to their changing needs. 

WARNING: some of the statistics and information within the Toolkit can make for difficult reading. However, it is important to address these areas when thinking about people with disabilities ageing, to ensure that the appropriate support is offered as they grow older.  

The Toolkit gives you the background to the Essex County Council (ECC) Ageing Well programme and is full of lots of information and tools to help you give positive and appropriate input to the people you support. 

In addition, working through this Toolkit will also help you put together the evidence required for you to become an accredited ‘Ageing Well with a disability’ Provider. In turn, this will enable the ECC Service Placement Team to better match people who are showing signs of ageing, to the most appropriate placements.