Campaign for Learning has worked with The Open University with funding from Hallmark Foundation to co-design, co-produce, and launch a unique, UK-wide toolkit aimed at supporting people to stay healthy beyond midlife.
The average age of retirement in the UK is 66 and while the impact varies, for a significant proportion, it can have a detrimental effect.
In addition to age-related health concerns, retirement is associated with increased risk of depression, reduced cognitive functioning, and lower life satisfaction. This decline in health and wellbeing has costs for the individual as well as their family and the wider society. This decline is, in many cases, also avoidable.
That’s why The Open University and Campaign for Learning, funded by the Hallmark Foundation, used Learning at Work Week (18-24 May) to launch Small changes, big impact: rethinking wellbeing, a first of its kind, free resource to support midlife workers to thrive as they age.
Based on the Five Pillars for Ageing Well, the resource highlights the importance of nutrition, hydration, physical, social and cognitive stimulation, to help promote health and wellbeing in later-life. It’s hoped that this toolkit will provide a sense of ownership over ageing and have a positive impact on them and their wider families.
How do young people in UK view healthy ageing?
Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) has launched a unique national research project funded by Hallmark Foundation to investigate what young people in the UK think about
