Introducing the
PALLUP toolkit

Welcome to the PALLUP toolkit – a resource
to support you as a team to enact local change in
the care for older people with advancing frailty.

What does the  
toolkit do?

The Toolkit supports you to run a three-hour workshop centered on the PALLUP film, where older people themselves tell us what is important to them in their final years. A set of guided exercises supports the move from an individual response to a collaborative group idea for change with clear steps for enacting the change.

Toolkit aims

To improve care for older people with advancing frailty by inspiring local action and collaboration.
To enable workshop participants using the toolkit to create and embed change at a local level.
To give workshop participants an opportunity to think and be curious about the people they care for beyond the bounds of their services.
The workshop is broken down into 5 exercises which build on each other.

What does the Toolkit contain?

The toolkit is comprised of:

The PALLUP Educational Film – a must to look at for yourselves before you start to plan the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkIaLrkRv0U
This Workshop Guide supporting how to set up, run the workshop and take forward the ideas for change that come from the group. Our aim is to give you the information, tools and confidence to run the workshop.
An accompanying Informational Video, available as a single film and broken down into bitesize smaller segments. This sets out the design of the workshop as a whole with tips to support facilitators. It may help for you to practice some of the exercises yourself.
A set of Printable Resources – to help you run the workshop.

Who is the Toolkit for?

Anyone who is interested in thinking about their local services and how to enact a change to support better care. These include…
Individuals and representatives of care and support services who are working in the areas of older people /Frailty and/or Palliative Care- across health, social and community organizations as well as Clinical Service Leads and Commissioners of services and Integrated care networks. There are challenges facing care delivery that can feel overwhelming and beyond our control. This toolkit is about understanding what matters to you as part of a local systems and how to meaningfully affect change in your local practice.

Where we can remove boundaries, we should,  this work is about recognising care as a creative activity and bringing our experience to bear. To empower each other to be the change and  have the confidence to take an idea and trial it, to push for the change – the system will reward confidence if you take the step…