Healthy Active Ageing
This project aims to create an approach to reducing Health Inequalities that activates and utilises the capability and capacity of people and communities with the support and services of health, social care and public health organisations from all sectors where needed. This pilot is based around Brackley and the Rural South LAP area.
The project aims support those of Northamptonshire’s Integrated Care Strategy and Older Peoples Thematic Group (OPTG)‘Optic report’ , Northamptonshire Sport and is working with the local LAP to build a model that has relevance and value.We identified an approach to use for the project called Asset Based Community Development, ABCD, recommended in the NICE guidelines and the 14 ‘Ageing Better’ projects and adapted the ‘Theory of change’ model from the Well London. (Appendix 4)
We utilised the WHO ‘Age Friendly communities’ four step cycle (World Health Organisation)
To support this approach a questionnaire (Appendix 1) was created to engage people and gather input based on an adapted version of the brief Older Peoples Quality of Life (OPQOL) and the brief Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scales – WEMWBS .
We gathered 103 responses from people across 6 cohorts and venues during June and July 2024, with follow up engagement during August and September to feedback, affirm and discuss the collated responses, and agree possible actions. A summary document of all responses was created, Healthy Active Aging Brackley (Appendix 7).
The responses identified activity people wished to do to become more physically, socially and cognitively engaged and barriers that prevented them. This led to a number of actions taking place, during the project, as well as planned and proposed actions.