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

当前社会面临的较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，这是总人口的一部分)，随着这种变化，对赡养的需求也自然增加。由于许多与年龄相关的疾病是由缺乏运动造成的，而不是年龄本身，因此有必要更多地关注康复而不是康复、预防而不是“修复”、自我护理和独立而不是在医院内发挥作用。英国的社会护理系统据说处于严重危机之下，Covid大流行加剧了这种情况。健康基金会早在2019年就估计，如果我们要满足人口的需求压力，到2023年将短缺100亿GB，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，淡化或忽视了大多数本来可以成功预防疾病和健康相关问题的倡议和计划--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，以支持帮助老年人更健康、更长久地提高独立性、幸福感和总体生活质量的倡议和计划。我们将建设一个革命性的众包-众筹平台，为影响和可持续的变化。Takk！平台使人群能够鼓动和影响让人们的生活变得更好的倡议。该平台是以目的为导向的，它允许捐款、会员资格和影响力投资。这将使私人的在线捐款得以扩大，合作伙伴的匹配捐款将针对具体的倡议和方案(可在该平台上获得)。总而言之，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更长。通过参与这些活动，老年人将增加自我照顾，并培养对疾病的适应能力，无论这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.