Programme: Age Friendly Demonstrators
WHO Theme: Community Support and Health Services
A Primary Care Centre provides many of the health or social care services that you find in your community, outside of the hospital setting. This includes General Practitioners, Public Health Nurses and a range of other services. Primary care should be the first point of contact that people have with the health service.
This document is for anybody involved in developing Primary Care Centres in Ireland. It is useful for private developers, practitioners, Health Service Executive staff and older people who are interested in contributing to the development of health care facilities. The guidelines were prepared in the context of new Primary Care Centres being developed in Ireland. However they are also useful to existing Primary Care buildings, particularly if they are being retrofitted.
The following considerations are designed to guide the future development for all Primary Care
Centres. They encourage service providers to consider whether or not the centres are being
used to maximise the potential to allow older people to have full equality of access, outcome and
participation when it comes to health and wellbeing. These centres have great potential to provide
supports to allow people live well and age in place in the communities they have come to know
and love.
