Fuelling well-being, self-care and independence for seniors through crowd-based funding stream

当前社会面临的最大挑战之一是人口结构的变化。老年人的数量迅速增加（绝对和相对地，占总人口的那一部分），随着这种变化，对支持的需求也自然增加。由于许多与年龄有关的疾病是由于缺乏活动而不是年龄本身造成的，因此有必要把重点放在适应训练而不是康复上，放在预防而不是“修复”上，放在自我照顾和独立而不是在医院里发挥作用上。据悉，英国的社会保障体系正面临严重危机，新冠肺炎疫情进一步加剧了这一危机。健康基金会早在2019年（covid前）就估计，如果我们要满足人口的需求压力，到2023年将短缺高达100亿英镑，而过去15年预算的持续削减据说会导致数百万人的健康状况恶化和生活质量下降。进入老年部门的公共资金的重点完全放在基本的医疗和健康相关需求上，淡化或忽视了大多数原本可以成功预防疾病和健康相关问题的举措和方案——无论是身体疾病还是精神挑战。我们提出一种全新的资金流方法，以支持有助于老年人更健康、更长寿、从而提高独立性、福祉和总体生活质量的举措和方案。我们将建立一个革命性的众包-众筹平台，以实现影响和可持续的变化。Takk !平台使人群能够发起和影响改善人们生活的举措。该平台以目的为导向，允许捐款、会员和影响力投资。这将使来自私人的在线捐赠得以扩大，而来自合作伙伴的匹配捐赠则针对具体的倡议和计划（可在平台中获得）。总之，这将增加活动和生活质量，从而帮助老年人保持独立和健康更长时间。通过参与这些活动，老年人将提高自我照顾能力，增强对疾病的适应能力，无论是身体上的还是精神上的。

One of the greater challenges in society currently, is the changes in demographics. The number of seniors increases rapidly (absolutely and relatively, that part of the total population), and with this change comes also a natural increase in the need for support. As many of the age-related disorders are created by inactivity, rather than age itself, there is a need to focus on habilitation more than rehabilitation, prevention rather than "repairs", self-care and independence rather than being productive within hospitals.The social care system in the UK is stated to be under severe crisis, with the Covid pandemic amplifying the situation. The Health Foundation estimated already back in 2019 (pre-covid) a shortage of up to £10bn by 2023 if we are to meet the demand pressure of the population, and the continuous cut in budgets for the past 15 years is said to result in deterioration of health and low quality of life for millions of people. The focus of public funds coming into the senior sector is on the sheer basic medicinal and health-related needs, downplaying or ignoring most initiatives and programmes that could have been successful in preventing disorders and health-related problems in the first place - be that physical illnesses or mental challenges.We propose an entirely new approach to funding streams to support initiatives and programmes that will aid seniors to be healthier longer, and hence increase independence and well-being and general quality of life. We will build a revolutionary crowdsourcing - crowdfunding platform for impact and sustainable change. The Takk! platform empowers the crowd to instigate and influence initiatives for making people's lives better. The platform is purpose-driven and it allows for donations, membership and impact investments. This will enable online donations from private individuals which are amplified with matching donations from partners, targeted to the specific initiatives and programmes (available in the platform). In sum this will increase activity and quality of life, and so help seniors to stay independent and healthier longer. By taking part in the initiatives, the seniors will increase self-care and build resilience to illness, whether that is of a physical or a mental nature.