Supporting Healthy Active Ageing: A Preventative Approach

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Supporting Healthy Active AgeingA Preventative
Approach

• Diane Brennan MSc RGN
• Liverpool Primary Care Trust

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Active Ageing Service

• A Preventative Service that involves multi-agency
  partnership and intergenerational activities.
• Includes older people in the decision making
  process.
• Empowers older people with knowledge and skills
  in order for them to make positive life choices.

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How Does It Work?

• Referral Process from any source.
• Nurse visits patient and completes a holistic
  screening tool with patient, including routine
  health screening and medication review.
• Referral onto appropriate agencies / services.
• Referral to Active Ageing Programme

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Intergenerational Active Ageing Programme

• Accredited intergenerational health education and
  physical activity programme.
• Two Hour duration, incorporating informative
  presentations, social interaction between young
  and old and physical activities such as Tai Chi.
• Delivered in partnership with local agencies and
  schools.

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What makes a Preventative Programme work?

• Innovative thinking
• Changing the mindset of GPs and nurses.
• Holistic approach.
• Involving the client groups in the decision
• making process.
• Partnership working.
• Accessing budgets and securing resources.

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Achievements

• Empowered community groups to take ownership of
  the original programmes, renamed Community
  Active Ageing Programmes.
• Established specialised programme at the
  Sunflower Centre.
• PCT volunteers.
• Gym
• Employment of Fitness Instructor
• Activity Sessions e.g yoga, dance, pottery,
  computer classes, drama, chair based exercise.

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Benefits

• Improved health and well being.
• Increased physical activity levels.
• Reduces social isolation and fear of crime from
  the young.
• Contributes in the reduction of falls.
• Reduces inequalities in health.
• Knowledge gained encourages positive life
  choices.
• Reduction in demand on health and social care
  services.
• Increased contribution to society and the economy
  by older people.

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Clients Views

• Its better than all my medicines
• (Mrs D Age 92)
• Its great! I use to think older people were
  just old and boring and moaned all the time, but
  theyre actually quite funny and they know loads
  of stuff.
• (Rebecca Age 16)

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Diane BrennanLead Nurse for Older
PeopleLiverpool Primary Care Trustdiane.brennan
_at_liverpoolpct.nhs.ukTel 0151-234-1204