Event Presentations

Alcohol and Older Adults - March 19th 2010

• Alcohol and Older People: Context Issues and the Future
  provides an overview of the issues affecting the elderly with policy recommendations from an AERC facilitated roundtable discussion.
• Specialist approaches in alcohol treatment for the elderly
  Presentation exploring some of the existing models of specialist alcohol treatment for older people and identifing some of the key issues and challenges.
• Age and Alcohol in the South West - A Double Whammy
  Looks at the factors affecting the behaviour of the elderly and provides an introduction to some of the projects run by Age Concern/ Help the Aged in the South West.
• Identification and Brief Advice: A recommended approach for older people
  Presentation covering: Why IBA? •Summary of research into barriers and motivators to delivering IBA •Where to go to order materials and find out about the new national alcohol campaign, Alcohol Effects....
• Vintage - Good Health into older age
  Provides a rationale and context of the Vintage project with additional resources.
• Alcohol and Older People A Gloucestershire perspective
  Provides a summary of the alcohol project and strategy in Gloucestershire.

South West Annual Alcohol Improvement Conference 11th Nov 2009

The Exchange Centre, Bridgewater

This one day event brought together a wide variety of stakeholders from all areas of the region. Delegates listened to a range of presentations on alcohol harm reduction strategy from a DH, Alcohol Improvement Programme and local Public Health perspective and were introduced to some local service good practice initiatives in Torbay, Plymouth and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. The afternoon focussed on the development of improved alcohol treatment pathways and included a series of workshops to explore local opportunities and challenges in taking this work forward.

The South West also launched is regional section on the Alcohol Learning Centre website. If you would like to contribute to discussions and the sharing of information in the South West you can use the dedicated SW discussion forum pages.

The presentations are listed in the order they were presented on the day.

• Alcohol and its Impact on the Health of the Nation
  Details of the DH approach and stategy to alcohol related harm including an overview og the Alcohol Improvement Programme.
• Calling Time in the South West
  Overview on alcohol problems in the South West and the public health role in tackling.
• Alcohol Learning Centre and the South West
  Provides an overview of history and content development of the Alcohol Learning Centre website with some navigational tips and introduces the South West regional pages, 'Calling Time'
• Development of alcohol liaison within the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital
  Details of the Alcohol Liaison Nurse Project at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospitals.
• SBI in Custody in Plymouth
  Details of the Harbour Project in Plymouth to provide Screening and Brief Advice in custody settings and link to the final research report undertaken by Plymouth University which underpinned commissioning...
• Peer & Aftercare Support Service in Torbay
  Details of a project in development to enhance the Torbay treatment system to improve the effectiveness & capacity of specialist treatment by offering peer support for alcohol harm.
• Alcohol Treatment Pathways _SW
  Overview of Alcohol Treatment Pathways including examples of pathways for primary care IBA, structured community treatment, specailist inpatient (detox) and homeless.