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Update September 2016 (PDF)

the UK a great place to grow old. With your help, we’re working hard to achieve this goal. Keeping healthy and looking after ourselves in later life is really important and our work in health and wellbeing ... active lifestyle can help reduce the risk of cognitive decline in later life. To keep your brain healthy, GCBH advise leading a physically active lifestyle throughout the day – for example by walking, using

Fit as a Fiddle evaluation report (PDF)

people 2.1 Characteristics of participants 2.2 Participation in fit as a fiddle 2.3 Impacts on healthy eating 2.4 Impacts on physical activity 2.5 Impacts on mental wellbeing 3 Key findings: impacts on volunteering ... targeted people aged over 50 across England and delivered a range of activities to help improve healthy eating, levels of physical activity and mental wellbeing through locally led projects. A national programme

Energy Crisis Parliamentary Briefing - December 2021.pdf

them this winter. At Age UK, we know many older people will be choosing whether they can afford to eat or heat. Older people often have a greater need for energy compared to other age groups – they feel ... funding so fewer vulnerable households are forced to make the difficult choice between heating and eating this winter. • The Government must also do everything possible to ensure that everyone who is eligible

Energy Crisis Parliamentary Briefing - November 2021.pdf

them this winter. At Age UK, we know many older people will be choosing whether they can afford to eat or heat. Older people often have a greater need for energy compared to other age groups – they feel ... funding so fewer vulnerable households are forced to make the difficult choice between heating and eating this winter. • The Government must also do everything possible to ensure that everyone who is eligible

Parliamentary Briefing How are older people managing the cost of living.pdf

prices? March 2025 Overview Keeping warm and safe at home is vital for a comfortable, happy and healthy later life. But, new polling set out in Age UK’s report ‘Back to cutbacks: How older people are managing ... guaranteed. It’s been 8 weeks now. It’s cold but I have duvets and extra clothes. I would rather [not] eat than go into debt to pay heating.” – Anonymous “I am on palliative care for my cancer and need to keep

Age UK - The Cost of Cold - Non-MP Version.pdf

Fit as a Fiddle Yorkshire and Humber evaluation report (PDF)

fit as a fiddle The Big Lottery Funded Wellbeing Programme is a £165 million grant healthy programme encouraging healthy lifestyles and wellbeing. BIG’s Wellbeing programme comprises three main outcomes ... aimed at: • improving and developing levels of physical activity; • mental wellbeing; and • healthy eating habits for people and the wider community The Wellbeing Programme is a reflection of the increasing

Policy Position - Health Inequalities (Sep 2024).pdf

these protections, many older people still experience worse access to key services, including mental healthi; cancer careii; and end of life servicesiii. Within this, as the largest users of health and care ... is wide variation in both life expectancy and healthy life expectancy – the proportion of your life that you can expect to live in good health. Female healthy life expectancy at birth in the 10% most deprived

Fit as a Fiddle North East evaluation report (PDF)

Successes and Lessons Learnt 5.1 Learning Points 6. Key findings: Impacts on older people 6.1 Healthy Eating 6.2 Physical Activity 6.3 Mental Wellbeing 6.4 Partnerships and sustainability 6.5 Impacts ... encouraging healthy lifestyles and wellbeing), to deliver the fit as a fiddle portfolio across the 9 English regions from 2007 until 2012. The fit as a fiddle focus was to champion healthy eating, physical

Fit as a Fiddle urban and rural (PDF)

report The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) Wellbeing Programme is a £165 million grant programme encouraging healthy lifestyles and wellbeing. BIG’s Wellbeing Programme comprises three main outcomes aimed at: • improving ... and developing levels of physical activity • increased mental wellbeing • healthy-eating habits for enhanced healthy eating. Feedback collected between October 2008 and January 2012, including: SNAP