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The document discusses the Age Action Alliance and its focus on promoting public health and active lifestyles among older adults. It provides background on the pioneering work of Professor Jerry Morris in demonstrating the link between exercise and health. The Alliance was launched in 2011 with over 180 founding organizations committed to working together on initiatives to prevent isolation and disadvantage among older people.
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- 1. Age Action Alliance: Public health and an active lifestyle Dr Nori Graham
- 2. Professor Jerry Morris 1910 - 2009
- 3. Professor Jerry Morris The first research physician to: • demonstrate link between exercise and health (in 1953) • define public health with a focus on the role that lifestyle plays in the development of chronic disease He lived 99 years but has achieved immortality!
- 4. Exercise: the cheapest super drug Regular exercise helps to prevent : • Heart disease • High blood pressure • Type 2 Diabetes • Depression • Stroke • Vascular dementia • Loneliness and isolation
- 5. Sixty years on Public policy catches up with science
- 6. Sixty years on • Impact of ageing society on low income older people highlighted • DWP approaches Social Justice Committee • Redefine retirement - active phase of life • Decision to initiate a community based alliance of civil society organisations
- 8. Early principles • Focus on the most disadvantaged people in later life • Prevent people becoming disadvantaged and isolated in later life • Champion new ways of working • Commitment to practical action • Not a campaigning body
- 9. Launch of the Age Action Alliance 30 September 2011 By Jan 2012, 180 organisations had agreed to join the Alliance. • Private Sector 20 • Statutory Sector 27 • Government Depts 11 • Local Authorities 5 • Older People’s Groups 2 • Voluntary Sector 66
- 10. How will the Alliance work? • Engaging older people to find out what is important to them and then acting on it • Alliance partners grouping together when it adds value • Build on current best practice • Updating each other on all activities • Working groups focussed on different areas to kick start • Developing some measurable goals to show that the Alliance is making a difference to people’s lives
- 11. Drawn from our English Forums – Older People have a seat on Ways of working the Steering Secretariat DWP/ Group, each AGE UK Working Group and form the Reference Group. Working Working Groups Groups Reference Working Working Steering Group Group Groups Groups Working Working Working Groups Groups Groups
- 12. Initial Working Groups • Public health and Active Lifestyles • Safe warm homes • Improving the lives of excluded groups • Loneliness and isolation • Age-friendly cities • Digital inclusion • Attitudes to ageing
- 13. Public Health and Active Lifestyles working group 5 Ways to Health and Wellbeing* An individual needs to : – connect – take notice – be active – learn – give *New Economics Forum commissioned by Foresight
- 14. Public Health and Active Lifestyles working group Identify one or more initiatives which meet certain agreed criteria: • Meets one or more areas of focus of the Alliance • Tried and tested • Shown to be user friendly and accessed by local people • Ability to scale up programme
- 15. The Fit as a Fiddle programme – My understanding • Age UK initiative funded by the Big Lottery fund for 5 years • Run by volunteers who receive training • Supports older people with a series of national programmes promoting: Increased physical activity Healthy eating Mental wellbeing
- 16. The Fit as a Fiddle Approach • Fits our theme of 5 Ways to Health and Wellbeing • Meets our criteria • Helps address loneliness and isolation • Improves knowledge of diet, cooking and nutrition and tackle obesity • Enhances general wellbeing • Encourages employers to include programmes • Sustainable
- 17. Fit as a Fiddle: Challenge of delivery • Post the programme on the Alliance web site www.ageactionalliance.org / Connections (a regular bulletin) • Encourage partners separately or in groups to set targets • Make the case to the Health and Wellbeing Boards to give their support for action • Monitor and evaluate
- 18. Jerry Morris Will his dream be fulfilled?
Editor's Notes
- At the hear will be a steering Group – formed from a range of organisations covering Government, the voluntary, statutory as well as the Business Sector. There will be space for at least two representatives from the English Forums on Ageing Seven working Groups will initially worked on the early priorities. Again the English Forums will be able to provide a representative on each of the working groups. The Reference Group will initially be formed from the Nine English Forums on Ageing.