Living Longer Better Conference with Think Active CSW Conference 29 March 2023

On the 29th March, we held a joint event with Think Active Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull at the University of Warwick to promote Living Longer Better. The focus was to investigate the role of activity in healthy ageing and to bring together professionals and communities to take this forward.

We had a number of speakers: Sir Muir Gray, who introduced the LLB Revolution; Dr Martin Sandler who detailed why hospitals are bad for you" and presentations from Public Health and Age UK National.

The Live Longer Better programme has three aims and the first of these is to increase activity (physical, cognitive and emotional) which will:

• Help people feel and function better, this year
• Prevent or delay the onset of dementia, disability and frailty
• Focus on the three Rs: regain confidence and purpose, recover the strength, stamina and suppleness lost in the last decade and recondition the body that disease and inappropriate activity has deconditioned.

The second aim is to increase healthy life expectancy and compress the period of dependency.

The third is to reduce the need for health and social care because a person with greater strength, stamina, skill and suppleness has greater resilience and is less likely to need acute care.

It was an excellent piece of collaborative work and an important advert for Age UK Coventry and Warwickshire. We will be feeding back to the participants and sharing messages with staff and volunteers as we take the revolution forward.

Our Director of Services Jo Judges and Services Manager Reece McLarnon, talk about the day here