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

目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，总人口的这一部分），随着这一变化，对支助的需求也自然增加。由于许多与年龄有关的疾病是由不活动而不是年龄本身造成的，因此有必要关注障碍而不是康复，预防而不是“修复”，自我护理和独立而不是在医院内生产。健康基金会早在2019年（新冠肺炎前）就估计，如果我们要满足人口的需求压力，到2023年将出现高达100亿英镑的短缺，而过去15年的预算持续削减据说导致数百万人的健康状况恶化和生活质量下降。进入老年人部门的公共资金的重点是纯粹的基本医疗和健康相关需求，轻视或忽视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。我们提出了一种全新的资金流方法，以支持有助于老年人更健康的倡议和计划。更长的时间，从而提高独立性和福祉以及一般生活质量。我们将建立一个革命性的众包-众筹平台的影响和可持续的变化。塔克！这个平台使群众能够煽动和影响使人们生活更美好的倡议。该平台是目的驱动的，它允许捐款，会员和影响力投资。这将使私人的在线捐款能够通过合作伙伴的匹配捐款得到放大，针对特定的举措和计划（在平台中提供）。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更健康的时间。通过参加这些倡议，老年人将提高自我保健能力，建立对疾病的复原力，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.