ICANN held a Flagship Event around Cancer and Older People, in conjunction with our AGM on the 1st October 2014, at St Cuthbert’s Church Hall, Fulwood, Preston.
The event was to promote our new Cancer Older People & Advocacy project. Invited guests included volunteers, cancer champions, service users and representatives from other local organisations.
ICANN AGM with Denise Partington CEO of ICANN, with Kevin Wright, Chair of Trustees
Our two guest speakers were Kath Curley from Beth Johnson Foundation and Paolo Dey from the Department of Health at the University of Central Lancashire. Kath talked about experiences and learning from being a Cancer, Older People and Advocacy pilot project partner, and how with the support of Macmillan Cancer Support, Beth Johnson Foundation had successfully extended the service to cover the county of Staffordshire. Paolo has a specialist interest in epidemiology relating to health inequalities and informed us about local statistics in relation to older people with cancer, and how this compared to national statistics along with those for other age groups.
Kath Curley
Local organisations including Age Concern, Alzheimers Society, Healthwatch, Help Direct, and Connect 4 Life, joined with Rosemere Cancer Information Centre, Vine House, our local Clinical Commissioning Groups and UCLAN in hosting display stands to raise awareness of their services. This provided lots of great networking opportunities for all participants and am sure will enable us to work better together in the future.
We concluded with a luscious cream tea, which was enjoyed by all our guests.
ICANN staff enjoying the cakes!
Janet Cullingford, Services Manager, ICANN
Older People Living with Cancer 