Wandsworth Older People ’s Forum

NEWSLETTER AUTUMN 2020

Elderly: It’s never too late to get your free flu jab

In this issue As. flu season approaches and Chief Medical Officer, Professor Covid-19 threatens a second Jonathan Van-Tam, a few weeks 1-2 A reminder to everyone to wave , Age UK is speaking with ago, who stated that having flu and get their flu jab cross-sector organisations about Covid-19 together significantly 2 A message from the a potential flu vaccine take-up increases your risk of death: membership secretary campaign for older Londoners at 3 Getting tested for Covid-19 risk from flu and coronavirus. “As I understand it, 43 per cent of 4 WOPF Annual Report those with co-infection died 5 Fraud & cybercrime “Londoners aged over 65 have the compared with 26.9 per cent of 6 Report back on our Age- Friendly London conference lowest uptake of the free flu jab those who tested positive for Covid 7 Obituaryand Forum news across the whole of England,” only,” he said. 8 Join WOPF says Age UK London, “with some areas as low as 56 per cent and Vaccination is the best defence Still shielding? with North West London against the flu and is now free if particularly low.” you are: With the recent return to work,

many volunteers are no longer available and some people still 65 years or over (over-50 will shielding have been left without be offered this later in the year); the means to get food. If you are Living in a residential or in difficulty, not wanting to go nursing home; out or without a delivery service, A carer of an older or disabled phone the Wandsworth Council person; Hub on: 020 8871 6555. The World Health Organisation A frontline care worker; recommends coverage should An NHS worker; 6555. reach at least 75 per cent for Living with a long-term Don’t miss out! people aged over 65. health condition; 200,000 older Londoners do Living with a weakened 6555. not claim the Pension Credit Flu can lead to serious health immune system. they are entitled to. Which is complications and hospital visits, Sheltered housing wardens were why the announcement that especially for those with an If you meet any of the above peoplewithdrawn over with 75 lockdown. will only In some underlying condition. Older receive a free TV licence if criteria, go and get vaccinated. Flu they are claiming Pension Londoners are more vulnerable season can last right through to Credit is so alarming. A to the virus in our crowded city. April, so it is never too late to ask letter from the Mayor of your GP or pharmacist. Frontline London, co-signed by Age The importance of everyone care and NHS workers’ workplaces UK London and Positive getting the flu jab was can also organise the distribution Ageing in London, was sent emphasised by England’s Deputy and payment of the vaccine. out to encourage Londoners over 75 years to check if they are eligible and then apply Earlier this year, Lesley Carter, for Pension Credit. If the T ime for ALL health Age UK’s Clinical Lead and an letter missed you, call 0300 care workers to get expert on care for older people, 790 6117 and speak to a TV went on record to say why it’s as Licensing advisor. the flu vaccine? important for care home and domiciliary workers providing hospitals, eg, in Data on flu vaccine takeup by care for older people to get their care homes and social care staff is not routinely flu jab as it is for frontline staff domiciliary care? collected, but an ad hoc Public working for the NHS. They provide the Health England (PHE) survey of community care care homes revealed “huge Last winter, nearly 70 per cent of to keep people variability, with the best [uptake] flu outbreaks in the UK occurred independent at 25 per cent”. The Select in care homes. “This is likely,” she at home for as Committee that had requested said, “because our immune long as possible. the information was “shocked”. systems become less efficient as we age. In later life, the In an article last year entitled “The Reseachers have concluded that: symptoms can be more severe, Importance of Flu Vaccination for Staff are implicated in take longer to recover from, and Health and Social Care Staff”, transmission events; and Benefits for patients may even become life-threatening.” Nursing Times commented: “More healthcare staff are having include reductions in all- The figures were much the same recommended flu vaccinations, but cause mortality and during the previous three a third of frontline workers remain influenza-like illness. winters. And she went on to insist unvaccinated. Data is poor but that “this means it’s vital that estimated uptake is even lower in Ruth May, Chief Nursing Officer staff working in care homes or social care.” for England, this year sent out an visiting someone’s home in a care open letter to more than a million setting are protected [by getting Rates between health trusts varied frontline NHS staff imploring the flu jab].” from 36.8 per cent to 95.4 per cent, them to help protect themselves with just over half of trusts and the vulnerable patients they NHS campaigns work hard to achieving 75 per cent or more and might come into contact with. promote uptake in hospitals, but nearly 30 per cent of health what about all the frontline staff workers in direct contact with While care home staff can now working directly with older and patients still not receiving the access a free flu jab, it’s clear vulnerable people outside influenza vaccine. much more needs to be done.

Thank you for managing and coping!

outside have now stopped – and At the moment, we’re wondering rightly so – it’s jolly cold now! whether we’ll all be Questing Beasts again in the search for Doing my (very enjoyable) phone tinned tomatoes, pasta and loo calls to our members I’ve heard so rolls. Not really funny, but Well, here much of what’s good, bad and somehow ridiculous! we are frustrating. If there ever was a again, still novelty to this (ha!) then it’s I’ve heard some lovely tales about managing certainly worn off. But I’m also people’s lives. The older and coping as best we can. It’s impressed how much members are generation has a wealth of been good news that some of you concerned about others. knowledge and experience and have been able to get back to when they tell me what they’ve certain classes and groups – So many have said recently how done and where they’ve been I’ve painting, exercise, crafts etc, but frightening it must be to be a new come to the conclusion – though now there is the anxiety that it student at university worried I always believed it – that there’s will all stop again. As many of you about getting home for the no such thing as an ordinary life. have said, however, at least we holidays; and many think about had some of that to provide their neighbours who might be The phrases that occur again and variety and to meet (a few) people more isolated and lonely than they again are “Go with the flow” and again. It’s going to be sad if what are. Thinking of others even when “One day at a time” and I think little there is stops, but as ever, things aren’t that good for you is a that sums up the general everyone is resigned to the fact wonderful way to be. philosophical outlook. So my that we’ll just have to get on with phrase to everyone is “Good on it. Though we had a lovely The other thing is how strong you. Thank you for . . . well . . . summer that went on for quite a people’s sense of humour is. I managing and coping!” while, exercise classes spend a lot of time laughing with Su Elliott that happened in parks and members about all sorts of things. Membership Secretary

Cruikshank explains: “When you form a protective barrier, it has come into contact with a germ been shown that older people, you’ve never met before, you’ve and those with diseases got various barriers to try to stop characterised by inflammation, it getting into your body.” such as allergies, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and There’s skin, then mucus, then diabetes, tend to have less the trillions of microbes that live varied gut microbiomes. throughout our bodies, internally and externally. Finally, the To feed your gut flora, Professor epithelial cells have to be Cruickshank recommends breached. Only then, if a “eating a more varied diet with To be immunologically fit, you need pathogen gets through these, do lots of high-fibre foods. The to be physically fit. “Exercise our white blood cells, or immune microbiome really likes fibre, cells, spring into action. pulses and fermented foods.” mobilises our white blood cells [the cells of the immune system But, not only do our microbes Vicky Hutchings involved in protecting the body against both infectious disease and foreign invaders] by increasing our blood flow, so they can do their surveillance jobs and seek and destroy in other parts of the body,” states Manchester University’s Professor Sheena Cruickshank.

The advice for older people, who are more vulnerable to infection, is therefore to do whatever exercise is possible. “Anything’s better than nothing,” says Professor Arne Akbar of University College, London. And exercise also reduces stress, which is next on our list of immune-boosting priorities.

Exercising, in addition to eating healthily, will have the likely knock- . on effect of helping you sleep better, a bonus as a tired body is more susceptible to infection. From a public-health perspective, when nasty viruses such as Covid-19 are doing the rounds, Akbar’s priority is “protecting the vulnerable . . . It’s a general problem of the immune system’s decline with ageing.”

In our last issue, readers were treated to the benefits of eating more fibre, which increases the diversity of the microbes in our guts. Professor Tim Spector, who has spent 25 years tracking identical twins in the UK Twins Study, showed that the more fibre in the diet, the less fat you become. And excess weight has been found to be a factor in getting very ill with Covid-19.

Now it appears that fibre in the diet also helps fight disease. Professor WOPF Annual Report It is with regret that our Annual Report has been published 2019 By Lilias Gillies so late this year due to the onset of Covid-19 As the year started, the Forum committee was part- way through a consultancy with the Cranfield Trust wh ich, with their consultant, aimed at creating a digital presence for the Forum. If the Forum is going to represent and gather opinions from the an advertisement. This arrange ment facilitated the generation retiring now, it has to use digital media. January 2020 issue and the Forum is grateful for the The aim was to generate interest and involve a support from Home Instead. wider group in thinking about the issues that the Forum was and would be tackling. It was decided Major conferences that the first task was to develop a new website. This The Forum has been involved with the Voluntary took longer than expected and the new website was Sector Coordination Project. This was funded for the launched in 2020. past few years by the Wandsworth Care

Commissioning Group (CCG) which wanted to The Forum has maintained its monthly meetings, support voluntary groups who were contributing, or with speakers from: Thames Water, who detailed its could contribute, activities to help people maintain an history and how to register as a vulnerable active and healthy lifestyle. Wandsworth Council is customer; Poppy’s funerals, who provided advice seeking to work with the CCG in developing healthy about what to watch out for in London’s escalating lifestyles and is now contributing to the project. The funeral costs; people born in far-flung parts of the ever-reducing funds available to the Council make it world who told of how they settled here; First Aid very keen to work creatively with the voluntary sector for Life, who had information and tips for staying and it supported the first Voluntary Sector Conference safe in our own homes; and from an early female in May. This attracted 112 representatives from a wide pensioner resident at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. range of organisations who came to hear talks from a

number of grant providers, from the NCVO and from There were also several meetings concentrating on Council and health providers in Wandsworth. health and care services and the long-planned

Health and Care Strategy, including one addressed The Mayor, Sadiq Khan, declared that London by Cllr Hampton, chair of the Health & Wellbeing would work towards being an Age-Friendly City Board. There was also entertainment from and Age UK London agreed to support this. The Wandsworth Community Transport Choir and the Forum held a conference in November on how to Treblemakers at Christmas. make Wandsworth more age-friendly. The Leader of

the Council spoke in support and Leonie Cooper AM Security of funding told the audience what the GLA was planning. A In October, Wandsworth Council reached a decision number of subjects were addressed by the speakers, to renew the grant to the Forum for three years, and the audience contributed many ideas, both in the with a possible extension to five, to maintain a conference and in their feedback, about what is good network of groups run by or working with older and what might be improved. * people in the borough. This security of funding is welcome. The Forum still has to raise the funds to Retirement continue to publish the quarterly newsletter. After editing the Forum’s newsletter for five years, The committee is aware that most of the population Jenny Weinstein has retired as she and her husband now gets its information digitally rather than from Jeremy are moving to the country. We thank Jenny for paper newsletters. It was felt that the Forum should her great contributions to the Forum in many areas produce a monthly e-letter that could give more and we wish them well for their future timely advice about meetings and report on matters of importance. After a couple of trial runs, this A sad loss should have been happening from spring 2020, but The Forum was saddened by the death of Winston the coronavirus pandemic has put this on hold for Gordon, an enthusiastic supporter and active member the moment and more frequent emails are being of the committee. Winston’s increasing difficulties sent out. About 40 per cent of older people do not with walking did not deter him, and the acquisition of use digital sources and the Forum’s newsletter is a scooter enabled him to continue attending Forum their only source of local information. It was agreed meetings and the Hestia Age Activity Centre which he therefore to accept the kind offer from a care agency represented on the Forum committee. to fund some issues of the newsletter in return for *Report on members’ views, see page 6

how to guard against them. he fraudsters may well have been News on fraud and able to obtain some of your details cybercrime . . . how to Fraudsters use the following beforehand, sound effects may techniques: spoofing be used to add authenticity, and guar d against them (masquerading as someone you will often be put under

else/disguising who they really pressure to provide details.

Fraud and cybercrime came under are); phishing (sending a discussion at the Forum’s January fraudulent email); smishing (a Top tips to reduce cybercrime meeting , which welcomed speaker fraudulent text); and vishing involve having a strong password PC Tom Lee of the Met Police. (a fraudulent phone call). and up-to-date virus protection. Very strong passwords should There are 200 officers of the Examples of recent frauds have have a minimum of 12 characters, include numbers, capitalisation, Metropolitan Police in the been fake emails from Amazon, characters and not be a word Cybercrime Unit. Last year’s crime DVLA and TV Licencing; and in figures for England and Wales the case of HMRC, demanding that it is in the dictionary. It is revealed there were 4.8 million payment. The link within these recommended that at least your crimes involving cybercrime and will go to a fake website which email account has a different fraud compared to 6.3 million of all looks just like the original. Any password, and a very strong one, other types of crime. links should never be clicked on. as access to this allows all other passwords to be reset. If you are over 65, you are three Any references to “unusual Lilias Gillies times more likely to be defrauded activity”, requests for verification, Hon Sec as burgled. In Wandsworth, there issues with accounts, problems were 1,630 crimes reported to with routers are typical examples All of the police’s cyber videos and Action Fraud, with victims losing of the information requested. electronic leaflets can be found on: an average of £4.066 last year. www.met.police.uk/littlemedia The advice is always to question Action Fraud is the national Tom Lee, along with nine any requests, challenge all details reporting line for all fraud and colleagues, is employed in making and remember that phone cybercrimes, either online at the public aware of what numbers and emails are not proof www.actionfraud.police.uk or by cybercrime and fraud involve and of identity. In scam phone calls, telephone on 0300 123 2040

when they checked their accounts. What Is cuckooing?

The editor writes . . . None of us had realised when we Cuckooing is when criminals Throughout September, my landline clicked on “fast” and “expedited” take over the home of a rang, it seemed, every two days delivery that this is, in fact, the vulnerable person, and use it with the same recorded message option to sign up to Amazon Prime. for criminal purposes such as claiming to be from Amazon. My  dealing drugs. annual Amazon Prime membership So . . . any message that my was up for automatic renewal and membership was about to be Who are the victims? £79 was “about to be” debited from renewed AGAIN almost made me my account. I was invited to press 1 forget to be careful. Clearly what They can be, among other if I didn’t want to renew in order to the scammers are trying to do. situations: older; living talk to an account manager. with a mental or physical Just remember that Amazon, like health condition; experiencing This is a very, very clever scam, your bank, internet provider, BT poverty; or feeling isolated. given Amazon’s “explosive growth” and others, will NEVER ring you. during the pandemic, with lots of Says Amazon: “We take phishing It is important to identify new people starting to shop online. and spoofing attempts seriously, cuckooing early by And since the Amazon website has and will never call a customer for recognising the signs, such as TWICE tricked me into unwittingly payment outside of our website.” not seeing the resident of the signing up for Prime, you may Second, if you progress beyond a property so often or an imagine that the smoke was coming recorded message to a person, increase in the number of out of my ears before I took a deep NEVER give out any personal people coming and going. For breath and checked. details. One elderly woman who information, please email: pressed option 1 found herself [email protected] I am not the only person to have defrauded of £25,000 when a .uk or ring: 020 8871 7707 been had in this way: as Which? scammer insisted her Prime found when it surveyed its membership had been fraudulently membership earlier this year, 28 per set up and if she would just allow cent of them had also accidentally him to access her computer he signed up for Prime, with some only could improve her security realising after a number of years settings. Her account was emptied.

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Even though the monthly Forum The Forum contacted Wandsworth receiving food parcels, and meetings for members at the Borough Council (WBC) where hopefully now have a means of

Anchor Centre in Garratt Lane sheltered housing is under the ordering and receiving food cannot happen at the moment, Housing Department. We have now and repeat prescriptions. the Forum committee is still been assured that WBC wardens are keeping in touch with what’s in regular contact with their People move into sheltered going on in the borough through residents. They made sure that their housing because they want its monthly Zoom meetings. most vulnerableresidents were the safety of having staff on tap Committee members remain as if they are unwell or have a fall ever able to pass on complaints in the night. Residents have to relevant bodies. been assured of help by means of their pull-cords with We discovered that sheltered someone coming even from housing wardens were being a distant office. withdrawn with lockdown. In some blocks, even the cleaners If you feel you are not getting were stopped and residents were help, please let the Forum told not to use the lounge and to know. The council is already remain in their rooms. In one looking into one complaint block, we heard that the which was passed on by the residents could not get their post Forum committee. as it went into the manager’s Lilias Gillies office – and this was locked. People move into sheltered housing See the back page for contact There are still complaints in because they want the safety of details some places. having someone on tap

Judith Crompton 1953-2020

It is with great sadness that her Her special joy was classical friends in the Wandsworth music and choral singing. Older People’s Forum have to Wherever she lived she joined announce that Judith Crompton a choir and sang in the South has died after a fall on 4 April West London Choral Society 2020. for the past 35 years and served on its committee for Judith joined the committee of most of that time. Wandsworth Older People’s Forum in 2015 and became a Judith continued her Trustee in 2017. She was education for most of her manager of the Balham adult life, studying for a Pensioners’ Club and Seniors number of degrees at the Worker at Balham Baptist Open University and later at Church. She was an active Spurgeon’s College. She member of the committee, worked at University College, attending and helping to Judith Crompton London before taking early organise meetings and retirement. representing the Forum at creating a new WOPF website last consultation meetings in year. Judith spent her childhood Her Christian faith was Wandsworth and London as a on a north Lancashire livestock important to her and led to whole. farm. Always practical, she milked her appointment as a member the cows when her parents went on of the ministerial team at As the youngest member of the holiday and although mainly living in Balham Baptist Church. The committee and a user of social cities throughout her life, when she funeral on 18 May had few media, she took on the job of returned to the farm she would walk attenders. A memorial event creating and maintaining a up the hill and look at will be held when these things Facebook page for the Forum the views. Her roots meant become possible. and was involved in the work of a great deal to her. Lilias Gillies

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