Welcome Older people and physical activity

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Welcome ! Older people and physical activity
Bob Laventure BHF NC Annual Conference November
19th 2008 Opening doors to an active life
how
to engage inactive communities
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Older people and physical activity

• Overview where we are now
• Life expectancy is increasing but not healthy
  life
• expectancy
• Physical activity levels are low and decline
  with age
• Significant loss of function in later life
• Significant variation in needs from 50 - ???
• Combination of factors are responsible
  
• - attitudes, provision and policy
• Regional variations across UK
• (generally a low priority).
• Variety of agencies and potential partnerships
• Growing practice in local communities

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Implementation ?
Health e.g. PCT
Residential services Care services Social
services HE and FE Fitness industry Medical
charities
Local authority
NGOs
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Active for Later Life Resource

• One stop shop on information, evidence, advice
• 1st published 2003 - revised and brought up to
  date 2007
• Making the Case evidence
• Factors affecting planning
• A guide to programme planning
• Working papers
• Putting it into practice
• Info directory
• www.bhfactive.org.uk

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Older people and physical activity

• Evidence - relating to ?
• Benefits and needs - is overwhelming
• Potential for short and longer term
• change - is strong
• Successful interventions - is growing
• Process the how - is better understood
• Recommendations - confusing

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Physical activity and public health- the
prescription is for SEDENTARY Adults

• 30 minutes of moderate intensity physical
  activity on five or most days of the week.
• No recommendations for older people

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Guidelines on older people and physical activity

• Contains
• How much is physical activity is enough and how
  do we communicate this ?
• What works in practice ?
• www.bhfactive.org.uk

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Other more recent developments

• Ministerial lead on older people and physical
• activity Welsh Assembly Government
• Physical activity strategy inclusion of older
• people ? England and Scotland
• Age Concern England Fit as a Fiddle (BLF)
• Free Swimming for 60 ?
• Football Foundation Extra Time
• POPPS Well-being and independence - Reporting
• Help the Aged National Falls Awareness Day
• NICE (2008) Guideline on Well-being and older
  people
• (Occupational Therapy, Older People and
  Physical Activity
• AGS and BGS Falls Guidelines Jan 2009

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Inactive and excluded groups ?

• Older, older people (85)
• Those isolated at home
• (esp rural communities)
• Minority ethnic elders
• Low SES
• With poor mental health
• Dementia
• Older men (excluded from services)

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Case Study presentations
Moving More Often Juliet Jackson
Physical
Activity Operations Manager Kirklees Council For
Ever Active
Helen Johnston
Sports
Development Officer
Cambridge City Council Simon
Hannah NHS Clinical Exercise Specialist Cambridge
Community Services
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Next steps and actions

• Feedback of both workshops to
• plenary session
• BHF NC Summary of guidelines on
• engaging inactive communities
• Stay in touch BHF NC Update
• Thank you for your contribution
  enjoy the rest of the day

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Further information on engaging older people
Active for Later Life resource Section 4 the
Working Papers 1. Engaging older people 2.
Overcoming the barriers 8. Promotion and
marketing 10. Cognitive decline and dementia 12.
Ethnic minority elders 13. Older
men www.bhfactive.org.uk
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A date for your diary !

• The 8th World Congress on Active Ageing
• SECC Glasgow
• August 13th 17th 2012
• Will we see you there ?