Love Later Life – learnings from

Age UK’s Wellbeing workDavid Terrace

Agenda

• Brief introduction to Age UK

• Our strategy with Health and Wellbeing

• How we are influencing policy

• What we are doing about it

• Initial results

• Case studies

Age UK Vision

A world where everyone can love later life

Age UK Mission

To help people enjoy later life

Age UK – Love Later Life

Age UK Group - Ambitions

Age UK Group - Structure

Age UK National

• Influencing

• Research

• Policy

• Service development

• Campaigning

• Retail

• Affinity Products

Age UK National Partners

• Work in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

• Independent charities

• Delivery varies by country

• All delivery information and advice

Age UK local partners

• 165 local partners in England

• Independent charities

• All offer information and advice

• Wide variance in service provisions

Health and Wellbeing at Age UK

Conditions and Illnesses

Healthy Eating

Fitness and exercise

Mind and body

Relationships and family

Healthcare rights

Our policy position

‘Efforts to improve public health must be seen as just

as important to older age groups as to other age

groups. Preventing poor health and health crises

in older people should be an essential objective for

health and care services.’

Key elements of our policy position

Our policy approach

Prevention

Crisis management

Who do we influence?

Our current Health and Wellbeing Projects

Inspire and Include (2013-2016)

Get Going Together (2013-2016)Fit for the Future (2013-2015)

Dementia Friendly (2013-2015)

Cascade Training (2013-2015)

The Model

Older person with long term

condition is referred to the

service

Local Age UK worker

conducts an assessment of person’s needs

A personalised action plan is made for the older person

Older person is referred to appropriate

services and supported by local Age UK

Our projects in numbers

2719 older people in 11

areas receiving 1-1

health and wellbeing

advice

46 local partners health

and wellbeing services

reviewed for being

Dementia Friendly

4,500 older people in 5

areas receiving group

support and activity

classes

800 older people with

disabilities regularly

participating in sport

3840 older people

reached through

volunteer cascade

programme

Successes to date

Video case study - Rotherham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJ05Gg

lebU&feature=youtu.be

Yvonne’s story

• Yvonne has type one diabetes,

hypertension and osteoarthritis

• She heard about FFTF through

the local media and signed up

• She was assessed by the local

Age UK staff and recommended

to attend Tai Chi classes and was

referred to a nutritionist.

• Yvonne’s mobility has improved

and she has reduced her sugar

intake

• Thanks to the programme, Yvonne’s insulin prescription has been reduced

and her blood pressure has dropped to a healthy level.

For further information please go to

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/health-

wellbeing/