title: Improving engagement with older people.
abstract: This article seeks to explore how the older person can be involved and informed in making policy at a local level. Their experience and expertise is invaluable and older people are best placed to voice where services are falling down and their needs are not being met. Government needs to engage with the older person much more effectively.
authors.affiliation: Engagement and Communications Policy, Help the Aged.
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Swan
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology; D003256:Community Participation / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008119:Lobbying; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom