Seniors Consultation

We are keen to hear your views of Cherwell as an age friendly district. This is defined as a place where people are able to live healthy and active later years.

We are very grateful to all of you who regularly complete our annual residents' satisfaction survey and we use these results to shape our plans and priorities for the district.

However, we would like to understand better what services are important to you, what improvements you would like to see and importantly, ensure you have access to all the information and services you need.

Thank you for taking the time to complete this short survey. It should only take around five minutes. Your views are very important to us.

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* 1. Do you feel Cherwell is an 'age-friendly' district?

Yes

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* 2. What do you think Cherwell does well to make itself 'age-friendly'?

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* 3. What can we do to improve the 'age-friendliness' of the district?

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* 4. Thinking about the services below, how important are the following in making the district an 'age-friendly' place to live?

	Very important	Fairly important	Neither important nor unimportant	Of little importance	Not important at all
Physical activities	Physical activities Very important	Physical activities Fairly important	Physical activities Neither important nor unimportant	Physical activities Of little importance	Physical activities Not important at all
IT skills and provision	IT skills and provision Very important	IT skills and provision Fairly important	IT skills and provision Neither important nor unimportant	IT skills and provision Of little importance	IT skills and provision Not important at all
Creative and cultural activities (eg arts-based activities)	Creative and cultural activities (eg arts-based activities) Very important	Creative and cultural activities (eg arts-based activities) Fairly important	Creative and cultural activities (eg arts-based activities) Neither important nor unimportant	Creative and cultural activities (eg arts-based activities) Of little importance	Creative and cultural activities (eg arts-based activities) Not important at all
Information availability	Information availability Very important	Information availability Fairly important	Information availability Neither important nor unimportant	Information availability Of little importance	Information availability Not important at all

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* 5. On a scale of 1 to 5, how confident are you in being able to access the right information about the services below? (1 is very confident and 5 is not at all confident)

	1 - Very confident	2	3	4	5 - Not at all confident
Activities/groups	Activities/groups 1 - Very confident	Activities/groups 2	Activities/groups 3	Activities/groups 4	Activities/groups 5 - Not at all confident
Support/advice	Support/advice 1 - Very confident	Support/advice 2	Support/advice 3	Support/advice 4	Support/advice 5 - Not at all confident
Health services	Health services 1 - Very confident	Health services 2	Health services 3	Health services 4	Health services 5 - Not at all confident
Community organisations	Community organisations 1 - Very confident	Community organisations 2	Community organisations 3	Community organisations 4	Community organisations 5 - Not at all confident

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* 6. If you answered not confident or not at all confident (4 or 5) to any of the above please tell us how access could be improved.

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* 7. From which, if any of the following, do you obtain most of your information about services that may be of interest to you? (Tick all that apply)

Friends/family and neighbours

Parish Newsletter

Cherwell Link (the Council's magazine)

Local groups and committes

Local newspapers

Local radio

Local TV news

Cherwell District Council leaflets

Cherwell District Council website

Public meetings

Contact with elected councillors

Contact with council staff

Information from other organisations (e.g. County Council, schools, doctors)

Twitter or Facebook

None of these

Don't know

Other (please specify)

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* 8. Where do you feel the gaps are in your local area or community and what would you like to see more of?

Thank you very much for completing this short survey. If you have any other comments/suggestions please email: consultation@cherwell-dc.gov.uk.