Ageing Well UK

ActivAge Unit
Age Concern England
Astral House
1268 London Road
London
SW16 4ER

Tel: 0208 7657231
Web: www.ageconcern.org.uk/stayingactive
Best time to telephone: Mon-Fri 9am - 5pm

Ageing Well UK is a health promotion programme which aims to improve and maintain the health of older people and is a national partnership between the voluntary, statutory and private sectors.

One of the important features of Ageing Well UK is the recruitment and training of Senior Health Mentors to work on health promotion activities and deliver healthy ageing messages to their families, friends, communities and above all their peers. Activities range from exercise groups targeted at increasing physical activity and contributing towards accident prevention to the provision of health shops where mentors give advice on diet, nutrition and healthy initiatives being offered locally.

They also provide the following series of information leaflets.

• It's never too late! The benefits to older people of stopping smoking.
• How safe is your home? A guide to making your home a safer place.
• Fit for life! How to stay active in later life.
• Promoting better health in later life.
• You and your doctor...working together.
• Making the most of your retirement.
• Staying well...you are worth it.
• Physical Activity ... Just One Step Away!
• Staying Focused.
• Depression... it's more common than you think
• Men's health, mission impossible?
• Fit Foot Steps.
• Eat Well, Age Well.
• Out and Healthy - Health and wellbeing information for older lesbians, gay men and bisexuals..

Checked: May 2006