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A colleague at the Social Care Institute for Excellence is working on a hospital discharge guide for older people, and we'd really appreciate examples of such guides. This is an area of huge importance as the experience of the discharge process including assessment of needs, setting up of required services and other arrangements for older people can often be a negative process fraught with difficulties and causing distress to individuals, their families and carers. We hope that our proposed discharge guide would provide information that would help towards life planning including planning future care, adjusting lifestyles, as well as helping individuals to gain some sense of control over their lives. In addition the guide would signpost older people, their families and carers to valuable sources of help and advice. The Social Care Institute for Excellence places a high priority on involving older people who have knowledge and/or experience of the discharge planning process so examples of participation in such guides are also valuable. Thankyou, and apologies in advance for cross-posting.